Availability-Based Importance Framework for Supplier Selection

Abstract

The availability of aging systems, particularly weapons systems within the Department of Defense, is of significant concern as budgets tighten and system replacement is infeasible. This work addresses the selection of sole suppliers according to their ability to provide component parts that strengthen availability of the system. We extend a popular multi-criteria decision-making approach, TOPSIS, by (i) considering the availability of individual components as the criteria in the decision problem and (ii) weighting those criteria according to the value of component importance measures while (iii) accounting for uncertainty in underlying reliability and maintainability parameters with interval numbers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2015
Accession Number
ADA623469

Entities

People

  • Jose E Ramirez-Marquez
  • Kash Barker

Organizations

  • University of Oklahoma

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Business Administration
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Maintainability
  • Maintenance
  • Reliability
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design