The best Suppliers of Sistan Cement Factory using FAHP

Abstract

Nowadays, Factories consider supply chain system as an essential tool for increasing competitive advantages. Under these certain conditions, creating proximity and long-term relationship between customers and suppliers can be taken into account as a vital factor in setting up the supply chain. Toward this regard, selecting the suppliers and logistics outsourcing have turned to the most important issue in creating this system. Human thoughts and judgment play a crucial role in determining the suppliers’ performance rate. Therefore, the fuzzy phenomenon will have more dominance on the systems distribution as long as the human force and complex systems are contributed in decision making. However, AHP method (Analytic Hierarchy Process) has more benefits over other approaches to evaluate the suppliers and logistics outsourcing. Using fuzzy AHP approach, we can minimize the deficiencies. This survey is aimed at prioritizing the suppliers and logistics outsourcing of a cement factory. Sistan Cement factory is our case study in this research. After identifying and collecting the indexes’ paired comparisons, fuzzy analytical hierarchy process method was used to rank the suppliers and logistics’ outsourcing of the cement factory. Due to great volume of the computation of fuzzy analytical hierarchy process MATLAB and Excel were utilized to follow the procedure of the study. Results obtained from MATLAB software and the experts make the suppliers and outsourcing rating feasible. Concerning this survey, the manager will be able to opt the suppliers and logistics outsourcing with lower risk and in a more transparent environment.