Plebankiewicz, E and Kubek, D (2016) Multicriteria selection of the building material supplier using AHP and fuzzy AHP. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(1): 04015057, ISSN 0733-9364
Abstract
When selecting a building material supplier, contractors may take into consideration a large number of criteria that are often subjective and hard to measure. Including them all in the evaluation may be beneficial, yet in practice it may generate many complications. A solution is provided by one of the multicriteria analysis methods. The article describes the criteria employed in the evaluation of building material suppliers. One multicriteria analysis method, namely the analytic hierarchical process (AHP), is argued to be a useful alternative. An example of its application involving its basic and the more sophisticated variant, the fuzzy analytic hierarchical process (FAHP) with extent analysis method, is presented. As the results reveal, real decisive problems require methods resembling human reasoning, which is often characterized by uncertainty and subjectivity of evaluation. The real problem presented in the paper proves that the FAHP method may have a practical application.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction contractor; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; labor and personnel issues; material supplier |
| Index terms: | subjectivity, personnel, reasoning, construction contractor, multicriteria analysis, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, building material |
| Subjects: | management, cognitive psychology, decision analysis, decision-making and optimization, practitioner, human factors and perception, building materials |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Risk Management, Roles and Professions, Human Resources, Design Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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