Application for Decision-Making in Transportation Logistics Function: Supply Chain Colombian Green Coffee

Abstract

The following article presents a review on the state of the art five basic criteria that a decision maker in the Supply Chain (SC) should consider in selecting carriers for the supply channel with suppliers and for channel distribution with distributors: opportunity, flexibility, cost savings, efficiency / productivity and technology. These are validated to a case study of SC Colombian green coffee, through the technical outranking multicriteria decision (ELECTRE), which seeks Carriers Selection (CS) under criteria. One of the contributions of this research is the methodology for decision making from building criteria from the literature to the application of ELECTRE technique. The second contribution to the decision maker in any SC is that he could take the code developed in Matlab and run at any time as making support organizational, logistical or production decisions, for any problem of selection, classification and prioritization.