To examine the practicality of the proposed AHP/DEA model for supplier evaluation,
an anonymous semiconductor manufacturer in the selection of an IC packaging
company is used as an example. Depending on the comparison criterion used,
one packaging company may perform better than the others. Therefore, experts in the
semiconductor manufacturer are interviewed first to decide the major criteria and
the subsequent detailed criteria for evaluating performance of different suppliers.
The procedures and results of the proposed model are as follows.