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A Multicriteria Multistep Approach for Evaluating Supplier Quality in Large Data Sets

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Quality and Reliability Management and Its Applications

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Most companies today depend on outsourcing to build their products. Outsourcing strategy has shown its effectiveness in increasing organizational profits through the development of better products when outsourced from the right supplier. The decision to outsource is made by a company’s procurement or purchasing department. The decision involves many factors, and it gets more complex as the number of factors increases.

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Abbreviations

AD:

Affinity Diagram

AHP:

Analytical Hierarchy Process

CA:

Cluster Analysis

VIKOR:

Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija Kompromisno Resenje

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  1. CIISE-EV 7.640, Concordia University, 1515 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal, QC, H3G2W1, Canada

    Aqeel Al Salem, Anjali Awasthi & Chun Wang

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Al Salem, A., Awasthi, A., Wang, C. (2016). A Multicriteria Multistep Approach for Evaluating Supplier Quality in Large Data Sets. In: Pham, H. (eds) Quality and Reliability Management and Its Applications. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6778-5_1

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