In recent years, Industry 4.0 makes a significant impact on the manufacturing industry, which enables the business more intelligent and efficient, all while minimizing costs. As known, the logistics concerns in the supply chain always play an important role to a manufacturing company, and decision on the selection of logistics service provider is a key point, especially for healthcare manufacture whose products are the medical devices or equipment of fragility and high cost. Practically there are so many logistics service providers with varieties in service quality, effectiveness, punctuality and reliability, that the manufacturers often encounter the challenge on the provider selection, and healthcare industry is no exception. However, the research on provider selection for healthcare manufacturers is quite limited. In order to help them to make the decision, this paper designs a logistics service provider selection scheme based on a novel weighted density-based hierarchical cluster analysis with integration of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for healthcare industry. Initially an evaluation index system reflecting the capability of the candidate providers in all aspects is established. To improve the clustering within the scheme, the density concept and the obtained weights are introduced into the traditional hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) to shape a novel Weighted Density-Based HCA (WDBHCA). To validate the feasibility of the scheme, a case study on a specified healthcare industry manufacturer is carried out, and results fulfill the case company’s requirement which shows the feasibility of the proposed provider selection scheme. In addition, this scheme can be applied to the provider selection in other fields, as well.

近年来，工业4.0对制造业产生了重大影响，这使企业在降低成本的同时更加智能，高效。众所周知，供应链中的物流问题始终对制造公司起着重要作用，选择物流服务提供商的决定是关键，特别是对于医疗器械制造业来说，其产品是脆弱且高品质的医疗设备。成本。实际上，有太多的物流服务提供商，其服务质量，有效性，守时性和可靠性各不相同，以至于制造商在选择提供商时经常遇到挑战，医疗行业也不例外。但是，关于医疗保健制造商选择提供者的研究非常有限。为了帮助他们做出决定，本文设计了一种基于新型基于加权密度的层次聚类分析并结合了医疗行业的层次分析法（AHP）的物流服务提供商选择方案。最初建立了一个评估指标体系，该指标体系在各个方面都反映了候选提供者的能力。为了改善方案中的聚类，将密度概念和获得的权重引入传统的层次聚类分析（HCA）中，以塑造一种新颖的基于加权密度的HCA（WDBHCA）。为了验证该方案的可行性，对指定的医疗保健行业制造商进行了案例研究，结果满足了案例公司的要求，表明了提议的供应商选择方案的可行性。此外，