Selection Of Third Party Reverse Logistics Providers Based On TOPSIS And Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set

With the advance of economic globalization, the competition among enterprises isincreasingly fierce, and even reaches a fevered pitch.In order to obtain greaterprofits,enterprises do everything possible to find a method to reduce costs,increase profits andenhance competitiveness.At the same time,because of the limited resources and incessantstrengthening of governments and consumers’environmental awareness,logistics managementhave emerged.With the development of logistics theory and practice,reverse logistics calledthe last piece of virgin land to reduce business costsis is attached importance to by academiaand the business community.“The last piece of virgin land to reduce business costsis”,”Thethird profit source””The third pot of money” and other reputation reflect the huge social andeconomic value inherent in the reverse logistics.This is also an important reason for academiaand industry to focus on reverse logistics.The involvement of third-party companies not onlyenriches the form of reverse logistics,but also demonstrates the inherent value of reverselogistics.Third-party reverse logistics can bring many benefits.It allows businesses to focus onthe main business,reduce costs,reduce capital investment,improve the competitiveness ofenterprises and enhance corporate image,etc.However,lack of knowledge of reverselogistics,lack of understanding of partners and using improper methods lead companies to notonly be failed to reduce costs,but also be caused serious losses in the choice of a third-partyreverse logistics provider.So for a business, how to choose the best third-party reverselogistics provider is an important decision-making related to the development of enterprises.In the context of developing circular economy in China, the paper makes scientificresearches on the issue of the third party reverse logistics on the basis of the theoriespresented by international logistics scholars and the practical experience obtained frommanagers of foreign enterprises.The paper creates an representative evaluation index systemand decision-making model for selecting a third-party reverse logistics provider. Theevaluation index system and decision-making models can provide a reference,when acompany select a third-party reverse logistics provider. Firstly the paper introduces the research actuality, background, conception andcharacteristics of the reverse logistics.Secondly,the paper explaines the conception andfeature of the third-party reverse logistics,analyses the advantage of the third-party reverselogistics.Finally,on the basis of the reference to domestic and international research and thepractice experience of business,the paper builds a representative evaluation index system.Interms of the evaluation model,the paper puts a kind of method which integrating TOPSIS andIntuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS). The method confirms every weight of evaluation index systemwith entropy,The evaluation model can deal with the vague imprecise factors in the evaluationprocess.