Criteria Ranking Based on Volunteer Selection Using Fuzzy Delphi Method

Supply chain challenges and recommendations for international development agriculture projects: an application of the FGD-fuzzy Delphi approach

“…For the case study, ten industry experts (Table S2) with 8 to 15 years of experience in managing ID agriculture projects of DAE. Considering previous studies, the panel size is prudent for both the FGD and fuzzy Delphi methods applied in this study (Bouzon et al, 2016;Ghazali et al, 2019;Mazlan et al, 2019;Saunders et al, 2009). As the agricultural projects are unique compared to other industry projects (Khan et al, 2022a(Khan et al, , 2022c, the FGD participants were asked to discuss both the challenges found in the literature and their professional experiences.…”

“…2. Since there is a lack of procurement and supply chain experts in a developing country context who can participate in such research (Ahsan and Paul, 2018;Khan et al, 2022aKhan et al, , 2022bKhan et al, , 2022c, the study employs multicriteria decisionmaking tools that do not require a large sample size or an extended period to collect data, and respondents do not require any advanced knowledge or abilities (Gill et al, 2008;Mazlan et al, 2019;O.Nyumba et al, 2018;Saunders et al, 2009). As a case study, experts who had managed ID agriculture projects at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the largest public sector agricultural organization in Bangladesh, were selected using the purposive and snowball techniques.…”

“…In the second phase, the study applied the fuzzy Delphi method to rank the recommendations for overcoming the specific challenges since the method, an integration of the Delphi method and fuzzy concepts, collected the experts' opinions without being twisted (Mazlan et al, 2019). The FDM converts experts' opinions into precise figures and generates additional benefits by saving time and costs as it does not require a large sample of the survey to get reasonable results (Bui et al, 2021;Lee et al, 2018).…”

“…The method has been found to be a very effective tool in analysing supply chain issues (Tahriri et al, 2014). In the case of the fuzzy Delphi method, previous studies have also applied 10 experts or less, for instance, 10 experts (Bouzon et al, 2016;Mazlan et al, 2019), 9 experts (Hsu et al, 2010), and 5 experts (Zhang, 2017). Additionally, it is suggested that three experts could be effective in conducting MCDM methods that incorporate fuzzy set theories (Mohandes et al, 2020).…”

“…Additionally, it is suggested that three experts could be effective in conducting MCDM methods that incorporate fuzzy set theories (Mohandes et al, 2020). The researchers in this study used the following strategy for gathering and analysing data (Habibi et al, 2015;Mazlan et al, 2019).…”