A Study of Multicriteria Decision Making for Supplier Selection in Automotive Industry

Table 29

Saaty’s pair-wise comparison table.

Numerical rating	Verbal comparison of preference
1	Equal importance
3	Moderate importance of one over another
5	Strong or essential importance
7	Very strong or demonstrated importance
9	Extreme importance
2, 4, 6, 8	Intermediate values

(Source: [29]).