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Raw material supplier selection in a volatile competitive environment is crucial for a company to succeed, and supplier selection is a complicate process in which decision-makers must consider multiple quantitative and qualitative features, along with their symmetrical impact, in order to achieve an optimal result. The purpose of selecting the right supplier is to improve competitiveness and product quality, while satisfying customer demand at a minimum production cost. The aim of this paper is to propose a multicriteria decision making model (MCDM) for garment and textile supplier selection. In the first stage, all criteria affecting this process are defined by using the supply chain operations reference model (SCOR) and experts\u2019 opinion. Incorporating hybrid fuzzy set theory into the analytical network process (ANP) model is the most effective tool for addressing complex problems of decision-making, which has a connection with various qualitative criteria; thus, the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) was applied for determining the weight of all potential suppliers, and the preference ranking organization method for enrichment of evaluations (PROMETHEE II) was used for ranking the supplier. The results of this research will assist researchers and decision makers in identifying, adapting and applying appropriate methods to identify the optimal material suppliers in the textile and garment industry. This research can also be used to support supplier selection decisions in other industries.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym12060979","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,9]],"date-time":"2020-06-09T06:34:16Z","timestamp":1591684456000},"page":"979","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["Multi-Criteria Decision Model for the Selection of Suppliers in the Textile Industry"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Chia-Nan","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Van Tran Hoang","family":"Viet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Thanh Phong","family":"Ho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Hong Bang International University, Ho Chi Minh 723000, Vietnam"}]},{"given":"Van Thanh","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Hong Bang International University, Ho Chi Minh 723000, Vietnam"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8693-9681","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Viet Tinh","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Hong Bang International University, Ho Chi Minh 723000, Vietnam"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Nhu, H. 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