An integrated approach for supplier selection in military critical application items

Abstract

Supplier selection for defence procurement is a crucial function of a Ministry of Defence. The Ministry spends huge amounts of money each year to procure a vast array of equipment, goods and services. The ongoing financial crisis demands less subjective and more cost-saving methods for selecting a supplier. The approach advocated in this article integrates Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with Goal Programming (GP) in order to combine conflicting criteria to select the best suppliers and allocate optimum order quantities among them. This paper presents a model close to real-world situations. Findings demonstrate that cost savings is a feasible result along with a viable combination of conflicting criteria in the suppliers' selection area.

Citation

Nikou, C. and Moschuris, S.J. (2016), "An integrated approach for supplier selection in military critical application items", Journal of Public Procurement, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 83-117. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-16-01-2016-B004