Prioritizing of Suppliers Development Strategies with Combined Approach of ANP and Revised DEMATEL Techniques

Supplier development refers to the purchaser activities to improve supplier performance in the areas of quality, cost, time of ordering to delivery, service, reliability, and promotion of suppliers knowledge which positively affects the operational and business performance of purchaser. The present study deals with supplier's development strategies including enhancement of suppliers’ quality improvement systems, data exchange with suppliers in the areas of quality, suppliers’ process improvement, suppliers’ productivity enhancement and contribute to the development of the suppliers’ product by the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach, Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Revised Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (Revised DEMATEL) techniques. The population of the current research consists of the foundry companies having more than 200 subject as human resources in Iran which manufacture the automobile parts. The research findings have shown that financial perspective (0.5417) , learning and growth perspective (0.0688) are respectively the most important and the least important dimensions to improve organization performance. in addition , information exchange with suppliers in the areas of quality (0.30) and supplier's productivity increasing (0.11) are respectively the most and least important strategies in supplier's development.