Group Decision-Making in Selecting Nanotechnology Supplier

A group decision-making context is created to enable assessment of the Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) performance in presence of complete and incomplete information. To illustrate it, four recognized nanotechnology suppliers are evaluated across seven commonly used company/product attributes (net price, delivery, quality, production facilities, technical capability, management and organization, and geographical location) to identify the best one in multicriteria sense. Broad overview of applicable selection criteria and related MCDM methodologies is also presented.