*Faculty Member, Department of Management, University of Economic Sciences, Tehran, Iran
**Kermanshah Research Science University, Kermanshah, Iran
***Allame Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
Online published on 12 May, 2015.
Selection and evaluation of suppliers is an issue widely studied in literature and several decision making approaches have been proposed by authors. The goal of these approaches is to form a decision making matrix for evaluating the criteria of suppliers’ selection. One widely applied method for this is AHP technique. The present study aimed at proposing an integrative method for selection of suppliers in Darupakhsh firm based on AHP and TOPSIS methods. Dixon criteria and sub-criteria were used for suppliers’ evaluation. Results showed that based on comments of experts of Darupakhsh firm, quality of technology has the highest importance in selecting the suppliers for this company.
Supply chain management, AHP technique, Multi Criteria Decision Analytics-TOPSIS-Fuzzy Theory