Due to the increasing competition and the continuous changes in current business environments, appropriate evaluation of the companies' performance is a useful tool not only for themselves but also for their own investors and creditors. In this paper, a model is presented for evaluating the basic metals producing companies. The proposed model based on analyzing the financial ratios is a combina...

Abstract This study proposes a new perspective of the TOPSIS and VIKOR methods using recently introduced spherical fuzzy sets (SFSs) to handle vagueness in subjective data uncertainties objective simultaneously. When implementing these techniques SFSs, two main problems might arise that can lead incorrect results. Firstly, reference points change with utilized score function. Secondly, distance...

Plant location selection has invariably a significant impact on the performance of many companies or manufacturing systems. In this paper, a new integrated methodology is structured to solve this selection problem. Two well-known decision making methods, namely analytic hierarchical process (AHP) and VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR), are combined in order to make the...

This study aims to find out the strategic priorities of technical factors have sustainable low carbon industry. For this purpose, a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is proposed that contains three different stages. First, economic criteria required for development and needs industry are defined by making comprehensive literature review. After that, weighted using fuzzy trial evaluat...

The central purpose of this study is to propose a set key performance indicators (KPIs) measure the construction small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have been ignored in management literature so far. Secondly, aims determine most crucial KPIs by using fuzzy VIKOR method improve cost-effectiveness measurement SMEs. At first stage study, proposed existing studies were identified via survey. ...

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People try very hard to have a symmetrical, strong, and beautiful body. The human body needs high amino acids for muscle protein synthesis. Whey is good choice that contains all acids, which increases synthesis improves shape with resistance exercise. For this reason, those who do sports, especially professionals, prefer use these products frequently. A large number of commercial whey powders a...