Evaluating Suppliers Using AHP in a Fuzzy Environment and Allocating Order Quantities to Each Supplier in a Supply Chain

Table 2

Linguistic scale for weighing criteria and evaluating alternatives.

Linguistic terms	Fuzzy triangular number	Inverse fuzzy triangular fuzzy number
Equally important (EI)	(1, 1, 1)	(1, 1, 1)
Equally preferable (EQ)	(1, 1, 3)	(0.33, 1, 1)
Slightly preferable (SP)	(1, 3, 5)	(0.20, 0.33, 1)
Fairly preferable (FP)	(3, 5, 7)	(0.14, 0.20, 0.33)
Extremely preferable (XP)	(5, 7, 9)	(0.11, 0.14, 0.20)
Absolutely preferable (AP)	(7, 9, 9)	(0.11, 0.11, 0.14)