Customer Validation in Cross-Dock

Authors

  • F. Jolai bSchool of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran , Iran
  • M. Aliakbarnia Omran Department of Industrial Engineering, Kish International Camp, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:

Considering the importance of validation of customers in the cross-dock and since this is one of the problems of implementing cross-dock system in Iran, this study attempted to extract customer validation criteria. The purpose of the research is to eliminate the distrust of distributors in receiving the funds of the sent items and the statistical sample of this research is the experts of the systemofdistributionofgoodsandvalidation, indicatorswerecollectedbyusingDelphimethodand questionnaire and AHP method was used to calculate the weight and the rank of indexes.

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Journal title

volume 10  issue Special Issue ( Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering and Sciences)

pages  115- 121

publication date 2019-12-01

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