Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme

In Entrepreneur Development Programme, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also determine where scare development effort is best-applied. The paper reviews current methods for vendor rating and finds them wanting. It illustrates a ne...

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Main Authors: Yahya, Salleh, Kingsman, Brian G.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Academy of Marketing Science 1997
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60381/
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description In Entrepreneur Development Programme, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also determine where scare development effort is best-applied. The paper reviews current methods for vendor rating and finds them wanting. It illustrates a new approach based on the use of Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy process method, which was developed to assist in multi-criteria decision problems. The new method overcomes the difficulties associated with the categorical and simple linear weighted criteria ranking methods. It provides a more systematic way of deriving the weights to he used and for scoring the performance of vendors.
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spelling upm-603812018-05-21T03:33:01Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60381/ Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme Yahya, Salleh Kingsman, Brian G. In Entrepreneur Development Programme, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also determine where scare development effort is best-applied. The paper reviews current methods for vendor rating and finds them wanting. It illustrates a new approach based on the use of Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy process method, which was developed to assist in multi-criteria decision problems. The new method overcomes the difficulties associated with the categorical and simple linear weighted criteria ranking methods. It provides a more systematic way of deriving the weights to he used and for scoring the performance of vendors. Academy of Marketing Science 1997 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60381/1/Performance%20criteria%20and%20assessment%20of%20vendors%20in%20government%20sponsored%20entrepreneur%20development%20programme.pdf Yahya, Salleh and Kingsman, Brian G. (1997) Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme. In: 1997 World Marketing Congress, 24-27 June 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (pp. 17-22). 10.1007/978-3-319-17320-7_7
spellingShingle Yahya, Salleh
Kingsman, Brian G.
Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
title Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
title_full Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
title_fullStr Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
title_full_unstemmed Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
title_short Performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
title_sort performance criteria and assessment of vendors in government sponsored entrepreneur development programme
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60381/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60381/1/Performance%20criteria%20and%20assessment%20of%20vendors%20in%20government%20sponsored%20entrepreneur%20development%20programme.pdf