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Different enterprises have different requirements for 3PRLP selection and, thus, should adopt personalized and simplified evaluation criteria. However, there is a lack of research on criteria screening. Therefore, this paper proposes a criteria screening method based on a rough set for the first time. The 3PRLP selection is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem in essence, and different criteria can be expressed in different forms. The existing research mostly uses one method for 3PRLP selection, lacking the comprehensive application of various methods. In this paper, various criteria values are transformed into intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs) for the comparison and combination of various intuitionistic fuzzy MCDM methods. In terms of criteria weighting, a subjective weighting method based on an analytical network process (ANP) is proposed due to the possible correlation between the criteria at the same level. Meanwhile, an objective weighting method based on intuitionistic fuzzy entropy is proposed. The subjective and objective weights are integrated to form the more scientific combination weights. Combining the modeling principles of different intuitionistic fuzzy MCDM methods, the representative methods under each principle are chosen to build a combination evaluation idea that integrates multiple single evaluation models, and the specific evaluation steps are given, including the single evaluation, Kendall compatibility test, combination evaluation, and Spearman consistency test. An illustrative example of 3PRLP selection is provided to verify the feasibility of the methods of criteria screening and weighting and the combination evaluation idea.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems10050188","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]],"date-time":"2022-10-17T05:08:02Z","timestamp":1665983282000},"page":"188","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Selection of Third-Party Reverse Logistics Service Provider Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6052-252X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiekun","family":"Song","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China"}]},{"given":"Lina","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China"}]},{"given":"Zhicheng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China"}]},{"given":"Xueli","family":"Leng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China"}]},{"given":"Zeguo","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266580, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"119212","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclepro.2019.119212","article-title":"Evaluation of the reverse logistics performance in civil construction","volume":"248","author":"Hammes","year":"2020","journal-title":"J. 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