Document Type : Original Article
Authors
Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
Abstract
For reducing risk effects in a supply chain, the appropriate risk assessment and ranking by the use of multi-criteria decision-making methods (MCDM) is important. Failure to properly assess and rank the risks makes the supply chain less efficient and competitive. Given the existence of both qualitative and quantitative criteria in a supply chain, the use of verbal preferences, given by authorities for determining the priority of qualitative factors, has higher reliability than that of the Crisp numbers. Fuzzy concept plays an important role in solving the problem of complexity of assigning quantitative fixed numbers to the values of verbal preferences. In the proposed method of this study, a comparison was made among the decision-making methods in the fuzzy environment for selecting a suitable method. To validate the proposed method, we compared it to some case studies from the literature. The results show that the proposed method has high validity and reliability in assessing the risks of a supply chain.
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