A material processing path selection method includes calculating a plurality of candidate material processing paths, determining a bottleneck process tank, and for each of the plurality of candidate material processing paths, calculating a bottleneck process tank utilization rate to select a candidate material processing path with a highest bottleneck process tank utilization rate in the plurality of candidate material processing paths as a target material processing path. The bottleneck process tank is a process tank having a highest use frequency among all process tanks, A use frequency of the process tank is equal to a total process time length of all materials that need to be transferred to the process tank divided by a number of all the materials that need to be transferred to the process tank.