Managing Supply Chain and Operations 1st Edition by Thomas Foster ,Scott Sampson,Cynthia Wallin,Scott Webb

Exercise 11

The purchasing department at a large international firm uses weighted-factor analysis as a part of its supplier evaluation process. Suppose that the firm has decided to evaluate three potential suppliers. The firm evaluates suppliers based on their technical abilities, their management, their quality, their delivery, and their price. The following weights are used in the evaluation:

Purchasing managers at the firm evaluated each supplier and determined the following raw scores:

Use the weights and the raw scores to conduct a weighted-factor analysis of the suppliers.