Decision making about outsourcing or insourcing of manufacturing activities is a type of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem, which requires considering quantitative and qualitative factors as evaluation criteria simultaneously. Therefore, a suitable MCDM method can be useful in this area as it can consider the interactions among quantitative and qualitative criteria. The analytic...

One of novel manners to achieve sustainable development is concentrating on circular economy in order manage greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and waste. It also helps protect the environment optimize usage input resources. The main element closed-loop supply chain which covers both forward reverse products flows. This study aims outsource logistics operations a chain. An innovative...

Among natural disasters, flood is increasingly recognized as a serious worldwide concern that causes the most damages in parts of agriculture, fishery, housing, and infrastructure strongly affects economic social activities. Universally, there requirement to increase our conception vulnerability outstretch methods tools assess it. Spatial analysis part non-structural measures prevent reduce des...

In this paper is researched how to achieve an effective fleet maintenance planning in transport companies, which contributes in increasing the fleet energy efficiency and in achieving the companies’ goal. Within the fleet maintenance planning, managers have to make the right decisions on the selection of vehicle service centers in the region where the maintenance work will be realized. The ment...