Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods for Supplier Selection in an Agricultural Enterprise
In today's turbulent market conditions, the selection of suppliers in an agricultural enterprise constitutes a primary function, and the entire supply chain with the necessary raw materials and intermediate goods plays an important role in the day-to-day functioning of the economic entity in this field. In order to successfully solve the problem of choosing a supplier, the decision maker uses the methods of multi-criteria analysis, and the corresponding software support. The subject of research in this paper is the selection of mineral fertilizer suppliers in the agricultural enterprise using the AHP methodology, which is one of the most commonly applied methods of multi-criteria analysis today. The aim of the research is to rank suppliers on the basis of the set criteria, and a supplier with the highest rating was selected for the supplier of mineral fertilizer as the observed enterprise.