Construction of concrete supplier evaluation criteria in building industry

摘要

Concrete supplier evaluation and selection in the building industry is one of the most critical processes for achieving a successful supply chain. In the past, technique for order-preference by similarity-to-ideal solution (TOPSIS) method has been extensively applied to the supplier evaluation and selection problem. In this study, six evaluation criteria (quality, price, technology, reliability, service and finance) are presented for selecting best concrete supplier in the building industry. Then, the TOPSIS is used as a powerful tool to select a suitable option. An illustrative example is offered based on a real case study to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.