Abstract

With the economic globalization, market competition is more and more fierce. The best food supplier selection is important for a food company maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. The food supplier selection problem is a complex group decision making problem. To food supplier selection problem, which the evaluation information is the ordinal interval preference information, a new decision making method is proposed based on the concept of group eigenvalue method. A practical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.

Keywords:

Food supplier selection, group decision making, group eigenvalue method, ordinal interval,

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