Question: 4 . 4 [ Alphen . xlsx ] Alphen is an Austrian company producing yoghurt. In order to produce a new product for coeliacs, the
Alphenxlsx Alphen is an Austrian company producing yoghurt. In order to produce a new product for coeliacs,
the company has to select a supplier of goat's milk which does not contain gluten The company has decided to consider
two selection criteria: the price and the reliability of the potential supplier. After a brief market analysis, the candidates
have been identified and ratings for each of the two criteria have been computed see Table The supplier selection has
been conducted by using two different methods, which are variants of the weighted scoring method: the absolute weighted
scoring method AWSM and the relative weighted scoring method RWSM In AWSM, the score of a supplier is given
by considering the judgement value expressed on each criterion independently from the values given for the same
judgement to the other suppliers. In RWSM the judgement value on a criterion depends on the worst value assigned the
other suppliers for the same criterion. The company has decided to give a weight to the price criterion and a
ie weight to the reliability. Determine the supplier to be selected by using AWSM and RWSM Discuss how
the solution changes for different values of parameter
Table Potential suppliers and absolute judgements on the two criteria adopted by Alphen
Note: unless you code a parametrized version of these methods, it will be impossible to do by hand an
exhaustive analysis for all values of Please solve for to drive your analysis.
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