Victor Pimentel, purchasing manager of Office Supply Center of Mexico, is searching for a new supplier for

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Victor Pimentel, purchasing manager of Office Supply Center of Mexico, is searching for a new supplier for its paper. The most important supplier criteria for Victor include paper quality, delivery reliability, customer service, and financial condition, and he believes that paper quality is twice as important as each of the other three criteria. Victor has narrowed the choice to two suppliers, and his staff has rated each supplier on each criterion (using a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being highest), as shown in the following table:

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Use the factor-weighting approach to determine the best supplier choice.

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Operations Management Sustainability And Supply Chain Management

ISBN: 234357

12th Edition

Authors: CHUCK MUNSON & AMIT SACHAN AND . JAY HEIZER , BARRY RENDER

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