Case Study 1 Ranking of Suppliers

The first step in pre-qualification is defining fhe selection criteria. For this case study, we have used the following 14 pre-qualification criteria as an illustration. The pre-qualification criteria have been split into various categories, such as organizational criteria, experience criteria, etc. The various pre-qualification criteria are described in the following  

In this case study, we assume there are 20 suppliers during pre-qualification. The 14 supplier criteria values for the initial set of 20 suppliers are given in Table 6.12. Smaller values are preferred for criteria C6, Cll, and C13 larger values are preferred for other criteria. Next, we discuss several multiple criteria ranking methods for short listing the suppliers and illustrate them using the case study data. Each method has advantages and limitations. The methods that we discuss are as follows  

For a more detailed discussion of multi-criteria ranking methods, the reader is referred to Masud and Ravindran (2008,2009). 

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