Fig 1.
Research methodology.
Fig 2.
Rice supplier selection strategy framework.
Table 1.
Linguistic terms and the corresponding TFN.
Table 2.
Fuzzy criteria weights using the F-EWM method.
Table 3.
Fuzzification of the equivalent criteria values for evaluating suppliers.
Table 4.
Aggregated fuzzy decision matrix.
Table 5.
Normalized fuzzy decision matrix.
Table 6.
Weighted normalized fuzzy decision matrix.
Table 7.
Normalized fuzzy performance values.
Table 8.
Relative fuzzy weight Qi of each option.
Table 9.
Overall performance index values and rank assignment of all components for the rice supplier selection.
Table 10.
Normalized fuzzy decision matrix.
Table 11.
Fuzzy weighted normalized decision matrix.
Table 12.
Fuzzy beneficial and nonbeneficial values.
Table 13.
Overall assessment values.
Table 14.
Rice supplier selection results of the four fuzzy MCDM methods.
Fig 3.
Rice supplier selection ranks based on different fuzzy MCDM methods.