Selection of supplier in Lamerd cement company using innovative Dematel-Promethee I&II hybrid Method

Suppliers are vital components of an organization and can have many effects on its performance. Considering these different effects, revision of methods of selecting suppliers is an essential affair. Among criteria of selecting supplier, we can refer to price, quality, delivery and satisfaction. Present paper addresses selection of appropriate supplier for Lamerd Cement Company by combining different levels of these criteria. For this purpose, one combinatorial method is presented. First, weight and importance of components of selecting supplier are calculated using Dematel method and, in the second part, appropriate supplier is selected with regard to weight of any criterion and using Dematel-Promethee method. SPSS has been used for estimating reliability of questionnaire and Matlab, Excel, and Decision Lab have been used for analyzing its data.