Identify and rank the criteria of selecting food basic items suppliers in FRAJA

Today One of the concerns of FRAJA commanders and managers in the discussion of staff food is the provision of food items and how to do it. The purpose of this study was to Identify and rank the criteria of selecting food basic items suppliers in FRAJA (Case study: law enforcement commandment of Isfahan province).

This research is descriptive, applied and developmental and has been done descriptively and analytically. The research method also was qualitative and quantitative as well as survey. The statistical population is the law enforcement commandment of Isfahan province staff who has a history of scientific or executive activity in the field of FRAJA purchasing and has been in charge of purchasing and related to the purchasing office and the logistics office, the training office and the maintenance and repair office. Data collection was in two ways: library (documentary) and survey (researcher-made questionnaire) and with semi-structured interview tools in the qualitative part and questionnaire in the quantitative part along with the opinion of experts. The analysis was performed by selective coding method and pairwise comparisons of AHP at two levels of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Content and face validity methods were used to assess the validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for the reliability of the questionnaire through internal stability.

In response to the research questions, the findings showed that the extracted criteria were classified into two main and subsidiary categories, the main themes included structural components, content or behavior, and context or environment index. Component rankings have shown that structural, content and context components has been ranked first to third, respectively. The findings also show that using pairwise comparisons and based on ranking, the quality criterion has the highest rank and the criterion of attention to domestic products has the lowest rank.