Research on evaluating and choosing logistics service providers for manufacturing enterprise

Manufacturing enterprise often authorizes professional logistics service companies to provide high quality logistics service for meeting commands of customer, so it refers to evaluation and selection of logistics service providers. Group decision making method of choosing logistics service providers with three parameters interval number is posed to solve problems existing in expert subjective selection. In the paper, the concept of three parameters interval number is discussed, and decision making expert weights are decided by means of deviation functions, and then the new sequencing algorithms for choosing and evaluating logistics service providers was established combined probability matrix with weight, which provided theory to evaluate and choose logistics service providers. Finally, an illustration of manufacturing enterprise was demonstrated to show the efficiency and feasibility of method. © 2013 ACADEMY PUBLISHER.