| Summary: | The emergent of Business Intelligence (BI) tools and techniques could help the transportation company decision maker to make informed decisions regarding their supplier selection. This research aims to help transportation company to identify factors influencing supplier selection in the transportation company also to visualize their data graphically. Other than that, the aim is to highlight the importance of business intelligence dashboard to their business and how it could help them in getting the information from their data thus to aid them to focus straight on the main problem of their company. Data visualization is one of the methods used in this study. BI dashboard of supplier selection is developed throughout this research. Based on the findings, there are three factors that strongly influencing supplier selection which are Price, Quality, and Delivery and data visualization offers a pictorial story platform that makes the decision makers understand the information in a timely manner compared to previous approach which is traditional way that needs the usage of complex queries and involve a time-consuming manipulation. Multiple graphs, charts also other visualizations could be created promptly by using data visualization software or tools. Results from evaluation shows that BI dashboard is very useful to aid transportation company to visualize the information related on supplier selection for decision making process.
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