A Linguistic Decision Model to Suppliers Selection in International Purchasing

Abstract
The traditional approach to suppliers selection based on price is simplistic because the information held for the decision making model is more complex and without precision in some tasks. There are qualitative factors that demand some judgement to determine a suppliers selection. Therefore, the linguistic representation of the of the knowledge available allows the problem to be recognised as in real life. This paper aims to supply a linguistic decision model to purchasing management problems.