AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR RANKING SUPPLIER EVALUATION CRITERIA (CASE STUDY: A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT-BASED COMPANY)

摘要

This paper provides a framework for the criteria that can be considered to evaluate the performance of suppliers of an international construction project-based company located in the United States. Through a comprehensive literature review, capturing historical data from the case company, individual meeting with the case companies' experts, and also holding several brain storming meetings with the experts in the area of supply chain, a list of categorized criteria is derived. The importance of the criteria and their relationship are asked from the experts via questionnaires. The data obtained from questionnaires are statistically analyzed and the most significant criteria are divided into several categories. Cause and effect analysis is conducted to investigate the interrelation effects among criteria. After obtaining the weights of the criteria, a multiple criteria decision making methodology is proposed to evaluate the potential suppliers for each project. The result is the list of weighted categorized criteria and a proposed methodology to evaluate the suppliers.