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A Multi-Attribute Comparison Of Turkish Quality Consultants By Fuzzy Ahp

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  • UFUK CEBECI

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka, Istanbul 34367, Turkey)

  • DA RUAN

    (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK·CEN), 2400 Mol, Belgium;
    Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium)

Abstract

Quality consultants are used in ISO 9000 implementation projects especially by many small and medium-sized enterprises. Clients do not always appreciate differences between quality consultants. This paper aims to provide an analytical tool to select the best quality consultant providing the most customer satisfaction. The clients of three Turkish quality consultancy firms were interviewed and the most important criteria taken into account by the clients while they were selecting their consultancy firms were determined by a designed questionnaire. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process was applied to compare these consultancy firms. The means of the triangular fuzzy numbers produced by the customers and experts for each comparison were successfully used in the pair wise comparison matrices.

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  • Ufuk Cebeci & Da Ruan, 2007. "A Multi-Attribute Comparison Of Turkish Quality Consultants By Fuzzy Ahp," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 6(01), pages 191-207.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijitdm:v:06:y:2007:i:01:n:s0219622007002423
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219622007002423
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    1. R. A. Aliev & O. H. Huseynov & R. Serdaroglu, 2016. "Ranking of Z-Numbers and Its Application in Decision Making," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(06), pages 1503-1519, November.
    2. Fabio De Felice & Laura Petrillo & Luigi Ranieri & Antonella Petrillo, 2019. "Previous Studies and Differences Between Lean Management and World Class Manufacturing," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(06), pages 1941-1966, November.
    3. Ergu, Daji & Kou, Gang & Peng, Yi & Shi, Yong, 2011. "A simple method to improve the consistency ratio of the pair-wise comparison matrix in ANP," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 213(1), pages 246-259, August.

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