A Multicriteria Group Decision-making Model for Selecting a Perishable Food Packaging System Using an Outranking Method

Because most decisions in the agribusiness environment are making in a group and supplier selection of package system is a crucial problem to be solved in this context, thus it is presented a multicriteria group decision-making model which having into consideration judgment preferences from several specialists and a beneficent supra decision-maker. The proposed model is the result of the integration of the main advantages of renowned multi-criteria techniques. Its principal benefit is the effortless manner as to obtain the criteria value without having to do a pair-wise comparison among criteria. The PROMETHEE II and PROMETHEE GDSS are implemented to obtain individual and collective ranking and the ROC is utilized to estimate the criteria weight values only providing a ranking of the attributes by DMs. A case study was conducted satisfactorily in the food industry, and a packaging system recommendation was provided.