Supplier Selection Of Foreign Trade Sourcing Company Using ANP-VIKOR Method In Hesitant Fuzzy Environment

According to the causes for international procurement,introduces the basic concepts of international procurement.Under the basis of the concept of international procurement,the characteristics of international procurement,the some common standards and requirements were analyzed.Then the causes of international procurement were analyzed.Secondly,the different selection criteria for the decision of procurement supplier selection are not identical.After selecting the methods of other scholars,this paper puts forward the decision-making methods used in this paper.Based on the domestic and foreign scholars to study the status of supplier selection,builds the supplier selection index system in this paper.International supplier selection which includes different criteria can be regarded as a kind of multi-criteria decision making(MCDM)problems.By combining the analytic network process(ANP)with the Vlsekriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje(VIKOR)method in hesitant fuzzy(HF)environment,this paper proposes a HF-ANP-VIKOR method.The novel HF-ANP approach is presented to determine the weight of each criterion.In this approach,the preference relations between criteria are hesitant fuzzy preference relations(HFPRs)whose elements are hesitant fuzzy elements(HFEs).According to the distance between two HFPRs,a new compatibility measure for HFPRs is proposed to measure the compatibility degrees of HFPRs.If the HFPRs are acceptable compatibility,they are converted into fuzzy preference relations by which the weights of sub-criteria are determined.Subsequently,extending the classical VIKOR method into HF environment,a new HF-VIKOR method is put forward to rank the alternatives.Finally,a case of Nantong uasia import and export limited company is studied to illustrate the practicability and effectiveness of the HF-ANP-VIKOR method proposed in this paper.