Papers
Selection of project management tool: An ex-post facto case study
Author(s)D. Mizuno
Valerio Salomon
Sao Paulo State University
Brazil
Publication date: Jul, 2018
Journal: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process​, Hong Kong, China
Publisher: Creative Decisions Foundation
Abstract: Brazilian federal law imposes to state organizations the supplier selection on price. Private organizations also adopt this rule, mainly by costs optimization or simplicity. However, lower-cost inputs do not guarantee lower-cost outputs. That is, lower-cost supplies may imply in higher-cost production, for instance, due to rework. Besides of that, producers may look for higher benefits instead of lower costs. For these reasons, even the federal law allows supplier selection on benefits, in justified cases. This paper presents a real case on supplier selection in a Brazilian company of fuel distribution. Since it was in a private company, a senior project manager could select a project management tool considering only benefits. An ex-post facto analytic hierarchy process application considered detailed benefits and costs. The results are compared in the end.
Keywords: AHP, Case study, Project management, Supplier selection