TY - JFULL AU - Babak Tashakori Bafghi and Laleh Tashakori and Reza Allahyari Soeini and Mohammad Mokhtari PY - 2012/6/ TI - Decision Support System for Suppliers T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering SP - 860 EP - 866 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5726 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 65, 2012 N2 - Supplier selection is a multi criteria decision-making process that comprises tangible and intangible factors. The majority of previous supplier selection techniques do not consider strategic perspective. Besides, uncertainty is one of the most important obstacles in supplier selection. For the first, time in this paper, the idea of the algorithm " Knapsack " is used to select suppliers Moreover, an attempt has to be made to take the advantage of a simple numerical method for solving model .This is an innovation to resolve any ambiguity in choosing suppliers. This model has been tried in the suppliers selected in a competitive environment and according to all desired standards of quality and quantity to show the efficiency of the model, an industry sample has been uses. ER -