With the growing competition, many construction organizations attempt to improve their productivity, quality, and efficiency. Construction waste management, by means of reverse logistics, becomes a key issue to improve the productivity, and raise the company’s green image. In this study, four key reverse logistics methods, including the direct reuse, the remanufacturing, the recycling, and the ...

Location selection is an essential decision problem for many industrial domains such as hotel, tourism site, energy, school, warehouse, factory, stores, retails and estate. This paper proposes the Primitive Cognitive Network Process (P-CNP) for the location selection problem considering multiple criteria. An illustrated example of hospital site selection demonstrates the usability of the propos...

This paper presents an effective decision making framework for software selection in manufacturing industries using a multiple criteria decision making method, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE). The method is improved in the present work by integrating with analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic is introduced to handle the i...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (Saaty 1977, 1980) is a decision-making procedure for establishing priorities in multi-criteria decision making. Underlying the AHP is the theory of ratio-scale measures developed by psychophysicist Stanley S. Stevens (1946, 1951) in the middle of the last century. It is however well-known that Stevens’ original model was flawed in various respects. We reconsider ...

In order to survive in today's competitive world, organizations are looking to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, they should focus on inputs that are more important than the rest of the inputs in their success. This paper aimed at ranking 7Ms (Management, Man power, Marketing, Material, Machinery, Methods and Money) and their sub-criteria of production in Iran. By improvin...

In the last few years, there has been an increasing growth in the number of collaborative partnerships between suppliers and manufacturers as a means to meet more complex customer needs and remain competitive. Selecting suppliers for a collaborative new product development (CNPD) process is a multicriteria decision making problem involving both qualitative and quantitative factors. The aim of t...

This paper aims to provide an insight to managers on the availability of simple-to-use Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a practical tool for inventory management. It provides an example of the useful application of AHP in determining inventory policy for spare parts. It also presents the use of AHP as an analytic planning tool which managers could use to evaluate the feasibility of a desired...

This paper aims to develop a model that assists the international retailer in selecting the country that maximizes the degree of fit between the retailer’s goals and the country characteristics in his initial internationalization move. A two-stage multi criteria decision model is designed integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Goal Programming. Ethical, cultural, geographic and ec...

the main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (fmadm) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. these criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. this paper proposes a method which combines th...

Mobile phones have become indispensable in our everyday life. The fierce market competition characterized by rapid expansion of advanced functionality and feature is making consumers’ mobile phone selections increasingly complex and challenging. In this study, we use Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multiple criteria decision method, to build a recommendation system for mobile phones selecti...