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Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method

With collaborative purchasing programmes where one of the aims is to develop suppliers, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also to determine where scarce development effort is best applied. This paper describes a case study into ven...

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Main Authors: Yahya, Saadiah, Kingsman, Brian G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operational Research Society 1999
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40277/1/Vendor%20rating%20for%20an%20entrepreneur%20development%20programme%20a%20case%20study%20using%20the%20analytic%20hierarchy%20process%20method.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.402772015-09-15T06:58:25Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40277/ Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method Yahya, Saadiah Kingsman, Brian G. With collaborative purchasing programmes where one of the aims is to develop suppliers, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also to determine where scarce development effort is best applied. This paper describes a case study into vendor rating for a government sponsored Entrepreneur Development programme in Malaysia. The paper reviews current methods for vendor rating and finds them wanting. It illustrates a new approach based on the use of Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy process method, which was developed to assist in multi-criteria decision problems. The new method overcomes the difficulties associated with the categorical and simple linear weighted average criteria ranking methods. It provides a more systematic way of deriving the weights to be used and for scoring the performance of vendors. Operational Research Society 1999-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40277/1/Vendor%20rating%20for%20an%20entrepreneur%20development%20programme%20a%20case%20study%20using%20the%20analytic%20hierarchy%20process%20method.pdf Yahya, Saadiah and Kingsman, Brian G. (1999) Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 50 (9). pp. 916-930. ISSN 0160-5682; ESSN: 1476-9360 10.2307/3010189
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description With collaborative purchasing programmes where one of the aims is to develop suppliers, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also to determine where scarce development effort is best applied. This paper describes a case study into vendor rating for a government sponsored Entrepreneur Development programme in Malaysia. The paper reviews current methods for vendor rating and finds them wanting. It illustrates a new approach based on the use of Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy process method, which was developed to assist in multi-criteria decision problems. The new method overcomes the difficulties associated with the categorical and simple linear weighted average criteria ranking methods. It provides a more systematic way of deriving the weights to be used and for scoring the performance of vendors.
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author Yahya, Saadiah
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Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
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title Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
title_short Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
title_full Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
title_fullStr Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
title_full_unstemmed Vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
title_sort vendor rating for an entrepreneur development programme: a case study using the analytic hierarchy process method
publisher Operational Research Society
publishDate 1999
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40277/1/Vendor%20rating%20for%20an%20entrepreneur%20development%20programme%20a%20case%20study%20using%20the%20analytic%20hierarchy%20process%20method.pdf
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