Multicriteria Selection of the Building Material Supplier Using AHP and Fuzzy AHP
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 142, Issue 1
Abstract
When selecting a building material supplier, contractors may take into consideration a large number of criteria that are often subjective and hard to measure. Including them all in the evaluation may be beneficial, yet in practice it may generate many complications. A solution is provided by one of the multicriteria analysis methods. The article describes the criteria employed in the evaluation of building material suppliers. One multicriteria analysis method, namely the analytic hierarchical process (AHP), is argued to be a useful alternative. An example of its application involving its basic and the more sophisticated variant, the fuzzy analytic hierarchical process (FAHP) with extent analysis method, is presented. As the results reveal, real decisive problems require methods resembling human reasoning, which is often characterized by uncertainty and subjectivity of evaluation. The real problem presented in the paper proves that the FAHP method may have a practical application.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 142 • Issue 1 • January 2016
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Received: Aug 19, 2014
Accepted: May 27, 2015
Published online: Jul 17, 2015
Discussion open until: Dec 17, 2015
Published in print: Jan 1, 2016
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