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Because of its lower density and plenty of availability, Magnesium alloy is a good choice material in automobile and aerospace industry. There are more and more materials available in the market to serve the common sake. Material selection plays an important role in the process of designing any physical product. A better methodology is required to help the organizations for selecting the best material. Multi Criterion Decision Making (MCDM) methods provide a ranking of the available alternatives thereby, decision of critical thinking become easier. A branch of MCDM methods named Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje in Serbian (VIKOR) is used in the present work. The work presents the selection of a Magnesium alloy material, where eight materials and ten properties are considered to identify the best material. The influence of weightage factors by three different methods was also discussed.