uploaded 4. You are in charge of analyzing five new suppliers of an important raw material and have beengiven the information shown below (1 = worst, 10 = best). Management has decided thatcriteria 2 and 3 are equally important and that criteria 1 and 4 are each four times as importantas criterion 2. No more than two new suppliers are required but each new vendor must exceeda total score of 70 percent of the maximum total points to be considered.RATINGVendorVendorVendorVendorPerformance criterionVendor ADQuality of raw materialEnvironmental impactResponsiveness to order changes8739.38477576Cost of raw material77a. Which new vendors do you recommend?b. Would your decision change if the criteria were considered equally important?5. Janice Gould of Krebs Consulting is in the process of making a recommendation to a clientregarding the corporate-wide purchase of an analytical software platform. She has made thefollowing estimates on management's most important performance criteria and has ratedthree Software packages across these criteria.RATINGFactorVendor Vendor VendorPerformance criterionFunctionalityweightAB2598Vendor reliability10759.Compatibility with current systemsMaintenance & support20681058Total cost258.Speed of implementation10847a. Which software platform would you recommend?b. Assume that the client changes their mind and now argues that the maintenance andsupport criterion is already accounted for by the total cost criterion. Further, the client asksMs. Gould to drop maintenance and support and add its factor weight to total cost. Willthis client request alter the recommendation?

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