CCB-BIRC Seminar Series
Presents a Seminar
on
Multi-Criteria Supplier Selection using Analytical Hierarchy
Process: An Indian Automobile Industrial Case Study
BY
Professor Selladurai Velappan
Professor and Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Coimbatore -14, India
Date: Monday, April 28, 2008
Time: 01:00PM - 02:00PM
Location: Charlton College of Business, CCB # 115
Admission: FREE
PRESENTER
Abstract: In automobile component manufacturing industries, supplier selection is considered to be one of the important decisions in managing the supply chain. Today's globally competitive business environment warrants suppliers to supply raw materials and outsourcing parts at the right quantity with consistent quality. The automobile component manufacturers are increasingly concerned about their supplier selection since reliable suppliers enable them to reduce inventory costs and improve product quality. A model has been proposed based on the integration of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) for supplier selection. AHP can be used to systematically integrate various judgments from different evaluators and obtain the weights of qualitative criteria. By determining the relative weights of qualitative criteria, these weights are used as coefficients of GRA model. The algorithm of GRA is then used to combine the qualitative and quantitative data at the time of considering its characteristics of "large-is-better" or "smaller-is-better" to perform the evaluation of supplier selection. The additive normalization method is used as the prioritization technique to calculate the priority vector. A case study has been conducted in a leading automobile component manufacturing industry in India to demonstrate the application of the proposed model.
Dr. Selladurai Velappan Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India - 641 014, earned BE (Production Engineering) in 1980, ME (Industrial Engineering) in 1982 from Madras University and PhD in Manufacturing Systems Engineering in 1994, from Bharathiar University. He has 2 years of Industrial experience and 24 years of teaching and research experience. He has published 55 research papers in various International Journals, 26 research papers in national Journals and 195 research papers in international/national conferences proceedings. He has organized 4 international conferences, 2 national conferences, 2 international workshops and 2 technical teacher training programs. He has produced 14 PhDs in field of manufacturing systems engineering. He has handled 7 research projects sponsored by AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education, Government of India), UGC (University Grants Commission, Government of India) and DST (Department of Science and Technology, Government of India). He is a Life Fellow member in Institution of Engineers (India), Operational Research Society of India, Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, Systems Society of India, Indian Institution of Production Engineers and Society of Operations and Production Management. He is in the editorial boards of Journal of South Asian Scientific Management and Opsearch. He has visited USA and UK to study the academic systems followed in various universities of the respective countries.
CONTACT
Dr. Angappa Gunasekaran
agunasekaran@umassd.edu X9187
Ms. Gloria Keeney
gkeeney@umassd.edu X8862
Last Updated On: 4/28/08
