An ever-increasing trend in today's industrial firms is to exploit outsourcing for those products and activities deemed to be outside the company's core business. Given the financial importance and the multi - objective nature of supplier selection decision, in this paper an effort is made to highlight those aspects that are crucial to process qualitative and quantitative performance measures. In this paper the contribution of a Multicriteria Decision Aid method (PROMETHEE/GAIA) to such problems is investigated, together with how to allow for a simultaneous change of the weights (importance of performance criteria), generating results that can be easily analysed statistically, performing an innovative sensitivity analysis. By way of example, the model is applied to a mid-sized Italian firm operating in the field of public road and rail transportation. The whole suppliers selection model presented (PROMETHEE/GAIA techniques plus high-dimensional sensitivity analysis) seems to be a useful additional tool inside the final choice-phase of a supplier selection process. Finally, potential issues for future research are presented.
Supplier selection using a multicriteria decision aid method
DULMIN, RICCARDO;MININNO, VALERIA
2003-01-01
Abstract
An ever-increasing trend in today's industrial firms is to exploit outsourcing for those products and activities deemed to be outside the company's core business. Given the financial importance and the multi - objective nature of supplier selection decision, in this paper an effort is made to highlight those aspects that are crucial to process qualitative and quantitative performance measures. In this paper the contribution of a Multicriteria Decision Aid method (PROMETHEE/GAIA) to such problems is investigated, together with how to allow for a simultaneous change of the weights (importance of performance criteria), generating results that can be easily analysed statistically, performing an innovative sensitivity analysis. By way of example, the model is applied to a mid-sized Italian firm operating in the field of public road and rail transportation. The whole suppliers selection model presented (PROMETHEE/GAIA techniques plus high-dimensional sensitivity analysis) seems to be a useful additional tool inside the final choice-phase of a supplier selection process. Finally, potential issues for future research are presented.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
