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ArticleScientific reports2024

Fermatean fuzzy distance and Sugeno-Weber operators-based SPC-MARCOS approach for sustainable supplier evaluation in the healthcare supply chain.

Adel Fahad Alrasheedi, Pratibha Rani, Arunodaya Raj Mishra, Ahmad M Alshamrani, Fausto Cavallaro

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Adel Fahad AlrasheediStatistics and Operations Research Department, College of Science, King Saud University, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Pratibha RaniFaculty of Business and Communications, INTI International University, 71800, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Arunodaya Raj MishraDepartment of Mathematics, Government College Raigaon, Satna, 485441, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Ahmad M AlshamraniStatistics and Operations Research Department, College of Science, King Saud University, 11451, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Fausto CavallaroDepartment of Economics, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis, 86100, Campobasso, Italy. cavallaro@unimol.it.

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The present work proposes a new decision support tool for assessing the sustainable suppliers in the healthcare supply chain. For this purpose, the classical Measurement of Alternatives and Ranking according to Compromise Solution (MARCOS) model is integrated with the Sugeno-Weber weighted averaging operators, modified symmetry point of criterion (SPC) model, rank sum (RS) tool and Fermatean fuzzy sets (FFSs), and named as the 'FF-SPC-RS-MARCOS' framework. The developed model firstly determines the decision experts' weights through RS model. Second, novel Sugeno-Weber weighted operators are introduced to combine the experts' opinions. Third, a unified weighting procedure is presented based on the combination of modified SPC approach for objective weight and RS method for subjective weight of attributes. To this aim, a novel distance measure is introduced for FFSs and further applied to compute the distance between aggregated Fermatean fuzzy numbers and symmetry point value of an attribute in the modified SPC approach. Further, a hybrid FF-SPC-RS-MARCOS approach is proposed to tackle the decision-making problems on FFSs setting. To elucidate the efficacy of the developed method, it is applied to a case study of sustainable supplier selection problem in the healthcare supply chain. The paper further conducts sensitivity investigation and comparison with existent approaches to test the stability and robustness of the ranking outcomes. This study shows how the proposed MARCOS method in combination with SPC and RS models can be used to prioritize the alternative suppliers in the healthcare supply chain. The introduced work provides a new methodology, which can help the practitioners and academics to evaluate suppliers with uncertain information and can also be employed to other areas facing similar types of decision-making problems.

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Distance measureFermatean fuzzy setHealthcare supply chainMARCOSSustainable supplierSymmetry point criterion

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