Ranking of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilient Suppliers by Incorporating Analytic Network Process and Fuzzy Dematel Techniques

In a proper and efficient supply chain, organizations must first identify appropriate and high quality suppliers, then by establishing long-term relationships and partnerships with selected suppliers, seek to acquire and increase the competitive capabilities of the organization. The selection of suppliers is based on the characteristics that make the supply chain resilient. If suppliers do not have the right resilience, in today's competitive market, businesses will not only be doomed, but the whole system will be in trouble.Therefore, in this paper, supplier selection in the resilient supply chain is discussed. First, the resilience indicators of the pharmaceutical supply chain are identified through a questionnaire from several experts in the pharmaceutical industry, then the relationships between the indicators will be identified using the fuzzy dematel method, and using fuzzy ANP method, the weight of the factors is calculated and its importance is determined. According to the results, Chinese, Korean and Turkish suppliers have higher weight than other suppliers and in terms of the criteria desired by the company, they are in the top priority.