A note on “Supplier selection by the pair of nondiscretionary factors-imprecise data envelopment analysis models”

Subject Areas : International Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis

A .Amirteimoori ¹ , R .Farzipoor Saen ² , H .Azizi ³

1 - Department of Applied Mathematics, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.
2 - Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Islamic Azad University – Karaj Branch, Karaj, PO Box 31485-313, Iran.
3 - Department of Applied Mathematics, Parsabad Moghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Parsabad Moghan, Iran.

Received: 2014-09-14 Accepted : 2014-12-26 Published : 2014-12-26

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis, Supplier selection, imprecise data, ranking,

Abstract :

Recently, Farzipoor Saen [Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60(11), 15751582 (2009)] proposed a method based on data envelopment analysis to identify optimistic efficient suppliers in the presence of nondiscretionary factors-imprecise data. This short communication aims at showing a computational error in computing the value of preference intensity parameter in Farzipoor Saen’s [1] article. Then, a ranking method is used to identify the suppliers with the best performance.