A NEW MEASURE FOR SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Recently the concept of dimensional analysis was used to propose a sup plier performance measure and to obtain an index called the VPI (Vendo r Performance Index). Usually the performance criteria used in supplie r performance evaluation include quantitative and qualitative criteria . Here a new supplier performance measure is proposed as an alternativ e to the VPI. For qualitative criteria, a two-directional consideratio n is used instead of a one-directional approach: which results in only a single score. The fuzzy bag method is used to compensate for blindn ess in human judgement. Then all scores for quantitative and qualitati ve criteria are combined in an intuitive sum of weighted averages call ed the SUR. The SUR is illustrated and compared with the VPI by means of two examples.