Title
Suitability of a Consensual Fuzzy Inference System to Evaluate Suppliers of Strategic Products.
Abstract
This paper designs a bidding and supplier evaluation model focused on strategic product procurement, and develops their respective evaluation knowledge bases. The model is built using the most relevant variables cited in the reviewed procurement literature and allows to compare two evaluation methods: a factor weighting method (WM) and a fuzzy inference system (FIS). By consulting an expert panel and using a two-tuples symbolic translation system, strong fuzzy partitions for all model variables are built. The method, based on central symmetry, permits to obtain the fuzzy label borders from their cores, which have been previously agreed among experts. The system also allows to agree the fuzzy rules to embed in the FIS. The results show the FIS method's superiority as it allows to better manage the non-linear behavior and the uncertainty inherent to the supplier evaluation process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/sym10010022
SYMMETRY-BASEL
Keywords
Field
DocType
bidding,supplier evaluation,supplier selection,multi-criteria decision making,fuzzy inference system,consensus
Combinatorics,Weighting,Fuzzy logic,Operations research,Procurement,Bidding,Mathematics,Supplier evaluation,Fuzzy inference system
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
10
1.0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nazario Garcia184.57
Javier Puente212014.99
Isabel FernáNdez3302.39
Paolo Priore414717.02