SUPPLIER SELECTION BY USING FUZZY LOGIC: THE CASE OF GAZIANTEP

Supplier selection, which forms an important ring of supply chain management, is one of the strategic decisions taken by businesses and plays an important role in achieving the objectives of the business. Supplier choice is a multi-stage and difficult decision problem that needs to take into account many factors. Therefore; there are many criterion-based decision-making problems that require a large number of evaluation criteria and qualitative criteria as well as quantitative criteria have now become a necessity. Fuzzy logic based techniques come to the fore in the evaluation of qualitative criteria in this sense. In this study, the problem of supplier selection of a company operating in the textile sector was analyzed according to Quality, Delivery, Procedural Compliance, Performance History, Technical Capability criterions via Fuzzy Topsis method. At the end of the study, A3 company ranks first in supplier order based on fuzzy Topsis method.