University of Tehran Press Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies 2981-0795 7 1 2014 01 01 Contractor selection in MCDM context using fuzzy AHP انتخاب پیمانکار در محیط MCDM با استفاده از روش فازی AHP 151 173 36206 10.22059/ijms.2014.36206 EN Rahmatollah Gholipour Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Iran Gholamreza Jandaghi Professor, Faculty of Management Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Iran Reza Rajaei PHD candidate of financial management, Pardis Farabi college, university of Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2012 12 30 Contractor selection is one of the most important problem in supply chain and its<br />strongly effect on firm`s performance. Because a significant amount of a<br />university`s budget assigns to construction contracts, contractor selection is an<br />important problem for the financial status of universities. Since Contractor selection<br />is a multi-criteria decision making problem (MCDM), lots of methods proposed to<br />face this problem. Selection is a broad comparison of contractors using a common<br />set of criteria and measures. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and other traditional<br />methods widely used for contractor and vendor selection by researches regarding to<br />lots linguistic variables and both qualitative and quantitative criteria and to tackle<br />ambiguous nature of contractor selection problem, although there is some<br />Insufficiency about them. In this article we use FAHP that is a fuzzy extension of<br />AHP to handle the fuzziness of the data involved in deciding the preferences of<br />different decision variables. The linguistic level of comparisons produced by experts<br />for each comparison is tapped in the form triangular fuzzy numbers to construct<br />fuzzy pairwise comparison matrices. We priorities Tehran university`s construction<br />contractor about each criteria and determine the best one about all of them. https://ijms.ut.ac.ir/article_36206_f914564bec61d56a5ebda81904a96191.pdf