A synthetic method of partnership supplier qualification selection based on criteria classification

Despite the increase in use of supplier evaluation, there still exist some limitations for the single evaluation method to deal with all the criteria. In order to avoid the limitations and realize the reasonable supplier evaluation with both qualitative and quantitative criteria, a synthetic supplier qualification selection method was presented based on the classification of supplier selection criteria, This method synthesizes the advantages of severaI methods including group-AHP, fuzzy evaluation, TOPSIS, and entropy methods and can make suppliers' evaluation more reasonable. An example of a real coke supplier selection from an iron and steel corporation is also presented to illustrate the proposed method.