Selection of Suppliers in Industrial Manufacturing: A Fuzzy Rough PROMETHEE Approach

Musavarah Sarwar, Fariha Zafar, Iqra Abdul Majeed, Soha Javed and A. M. Bastos Pereira

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-19

Abstract: In supply chain management (SCM), the selection of suppliers plays a vital role in an efficient production process. Over the last few years, to form a trade-off between the quantitative and qualitative criteria, the selection of suppliers in SCM is considered very conclusive. The decisions generally demand different criteria to balance between every possible inconsistent parameters involving subjectivity and uncertainty in the process. The evaluation information mostly depends on the experience and knowledge of experts that are unsure and indistinct. This study introduces a novel decision-making method by integrating rough approximations with fuzzy numbers and preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) to deal with subjective and objective vagueness in the assessment of decision makers. To minimize the dependency on experts’ judgements, entropy weights are computed from the original data set. The preference index is then computed using entropy weights and deviations among alternatives. The alternatives are ranked using the intersection of both positive flow and negative flow. To show the significance and importance of fuzzy rough PROMETHEE method, a case study of supplier selection in industrial manufacturing is discussed in detail. The developed method is effectively used to rank the supplier alternatives under given criteria. The results are then compared with different rough numbers and fuzzy numbers based on MCDM methods. The fuzzy rough PROMETHEE method can be efficiently used for the selection of the best suppliers to reduce losses and maximize the production process.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2022/6141225.pdf (application/pdf)
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2022/6141225.xml (application/xml)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:6141225

DOI: 10.1155/2022/6141225

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Mathematical Problems in Engineering from Hindawi
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mohamed Abdelhakeem ().