An application of the AHP in vendor selection of a telecommunications system

By Maggie Tam, V. Tummala. 2001

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research

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A hybrid MCDM model for strategic vendor selection (2006, background): “Tam and Tummala [39] (five attributes at its lower level) which seven types of firms are investigated.”
An integrated fuzzy TOPSIS and MCGP approach to supplier selection in supply chain management (2011, background): “Tam and Tummala (2001) proposed an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) based model and adopted quality, cost, problem-solving capabilities, expertise, delivery lead time, response to customer requests, experience, and reputation in selecting telecommunications systems.”
Investigating the effect of website quality on e-business success: An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach (2006, methodology): “AHP has been applied successfully to resolve various IS problems such as project selection [13], diagnostic technology [11], manufacturingsystems[55],andtelecommunication systems vendors [ 61 ], but has not been widely applied to ebusiness areas.”
Analytic hierarchy process: An overview of applications (2006, methodology): “Akarte et al. [2] used AHP to select the best casting suppliers from the group of evaluated Table 1 References on the topic of ÔSelectionÕ Ahire S L, Rana D S Social – 2 [3] Ceha R, Hiroshi Ohta Political – 8 [37] 1997 Cheng C H Social Fuzzy theory 9 [51] 2003 Ferrari P Political 10 [57] 1998 Ghodsy”
Group decision making process for supplier selection with VIKOR under fuzzy environment (2010, background): “Similarly, L1;j is interpreted as ‘discordance’ and provides decision makers with information about the minimum individual regret of the ‘opponent’.”
Product-driven supply chain selection using integrated multi-criteria decision-making methodology (2004, background): “In addition to the wide application of AHP in manufacturing areas, recent research and industrial activities of applying AHP on other selection problems are also quite active (Tam and Tummala, 2001; Lai et al., 1999; El-Wahed and Al-Hindi, 1998; Schniederjans and Garvin, 1997; Tummala et al., 1997).”
Using a multi-criteria decision making approach to evaluate mobile phone alternatives (2007, methodology): “In [16], a vendor of the telecommunication system is selected using an AHP approach, which can be very useful involving several decision makers with different conflicting objectives to arrive at a consensus decision.”
Long term supplier selection using a combined fuzzy MCDM approach: A case study for a telecommunication company (2009, background): “Tam and Tummala (2001) proposed an AHP-based model and applied to a telecommunications company to examine its feasibility in selecting a vendor for a telecommunications system.”
Supplier selection and order lot sizing modeling: A review (2007, background): “Narasimhan [37], Partovi et al. [57], Nydick and Hill [58], Barbarosoglu and Yazgaç [59], Yahya and Kingsman [60], Masella and Rangone [61], Tam and Tummala [62], Lee et al. [63], Handfield et al. [64] and Colombo and Francalanci [65] propose the use of this technique to cope especially with determi”