Abstract

The study aims to optimal decision-making process for selecting the best suppliers where will plays an important role in the success any productive or service organization, affects this choice on the price, quality and delivery time of the products of this organization, thus enabling companies to manufacture innovative, high-quality products at an appropriate cost and gain a competitive advantage in the market. Quantitative and qualitative methods used to select the best supplier (one or more) from among several suppliers, and multiple and different criteria are used to compare between suppliers. In this paper, depend on more than one criterion n for the comparison between suppliers using the analysis hierarchy process, as it consider one from multi-criteria decision-making methods. This paper aims to help decision-makers in production and service organization to select the best suppliers and based on multi-criteria. Each criterion has its assign weight, which reflects its importance for the process of comparison between alternatives to suppliers using analysis hierarchy process (AHP). The selection of the best suppliers using analysis hierarchy process through three stages. The first stage is the stage of data collection and identification of the preference criteria in the comparison process. The second stage is the determination of the relative importance of the preference criteria depend on binary comparison between the criterions. The third and final stage is the selection the best suppliers by comparing the alternatives available to suppliers and arranging them in order of importance from highest importance to least important.