A Study on Supplier Evaluation in Product Innovation Based on Agile Supply Chain

摘要

Nowadays, based on the thesis of agile supply chain, More and more company trend to develop collaborative relationship with their suppliers/vendors and focus on the long-term relationship in the supply chain to enhance its competition kernel in its segment market. Hegemony enterprise needs a rapid & synthetic qualitative & quantitative evaluation and selection method for potential suppliers in the supply chain. The paper integrates the DEA-based quantitative external method and the ANP-based subjective method and presents a new model of (ANP& DEA)-based supplier evaluation. Furthermore, the paper introduces the mathematic analysis process for a case of a product-end manufacturer to confirm the presenting model.