Solution Proposal For Supplier Selection Problem: An Application In Agricultural Machinery SectorWith Global Criterion Method

The pressure arising from the competition among businesses has placed supply chain and supply chain management as a significant topics in terms of their strategy building and success. Due to one or many conflicting criteria in choosing suppliers, it is a great problem to select the most appropriate supplier or suppliers. This study deals with the supplier selection problem of a business in agricultural machinery sector in Aksaray, Turkey, from the standpoint of Multiple Objective Decision Making Process. The problem of the business is first defined according to Multiobjective Linear Programming, and the compromise solution of the problem was carried out based on Global Criterion Method