Comparing MADM and artificial neural network methods for evaluating suppliers in multiple sourcing decision

This research seeks to examine and introduce an appropriate method for evaluating and selecting suppliers in multiple sourcing and compares two efficient and effective methods, i.e.MADM and ANN for selecting the suppliers.The results of using the methods are compared with each other by using the measurement criteria such as RMSE, NRMSE, and R 2 and they indicate that ANN could perform relatively better than MADM methods.