Title: Evaluating of suppliers selection in auto parts manufacturing company using DEMATEL and TOPSIS

Authors: Mohammad Reza Komari Alaei; Reza Rostamzadeh; Babak Adham

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering, Alghadir institute of Higher Education, Tabriz, Iran ' Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Big Data Research Center, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran ' Department of Business Administration, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract: Global competition in an environment which is permanently changing has led organisations to understand the importance of flexibility, present reasonable and in time reactions towards it. Management of supply chain is a strategy to carry out such a work in a way that customers can achieve reliable and fast services along with products having high quality with the least possible costs. The goal of the present research is to evaluate suppliers of Iranian Diesel Engine Manufacturing (IDEM) company using a decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and ranking them using technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). Results showed that planning has appropriated the highest weight. Ideal Motor Parts Factory (IMPF) with 0.8231 has appropriated the highest rank to itself compared with other options and this shows that based on SCOR model, the factory has had the best conditions compared with others.

Keywords: supply chain; suppliers' evaluation; outsourcing; DEMATEL; strategic alliances; TOPSIS; IDEM Company.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2024.137017

International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2024 Vol.25 No.2, pp.298 - 326

Received: 11 Dec 2021
Accepted: 19 Oct 2022
Published online: 01 Mar 2024 *