This paper discusses the analogical/case-based planning approach developed in PRODIGY/ANALOGY. The technique involves planning for complex problems by the multi-case reuse of simpler past plans that are conjunctively similar to a new planning situation. The paper demonstrates this effective incremental planning strategy by providing empirical results on the performance of PRODIGY/ANALOGY solvin...

Purpose The impact of transportation on the supplier selection has received a very scant attention in the literature. This is a great limitation because splitting orders across multiple suppliers will lead to smaller transportation quantities which will likely imply larger transportation cost. Moreover, transportation and inventory elements are highly interrelated and contribute most to the tot...

Industrial engineering is a field of profession that offers various work areas around the world. Since it has a wide variety of work areas, students encounter with the problem of taking a decision on which sector to work in the future. Therefore, a questionnaire has been conducted on 60 students who study at Industrial Engineering department at different universities in Turkey. Fuzzy AHP (Analy...

Reverse logistics, the movement of materials back up the supply chain, is being recognized by many organizations as an opportunity for adding value. While global environmental concerns have been the motivation for initiating the field of reverse logistics, businesses have discovered that valuable commercial opportunities are embedded in reverse logistics. The management of customer returns of p...

This study was aimed at evaluating the performance of the reverse logistics process in the automotive industry. Fuzzy logic was applied in assessing the performance of the reverse logistics process using a case study. Linguistic variables were used to represent the performance of the metrics, and the variables were converted into fuzzy numbers. Fuzzy operators were applied to these numbers to o...

Activities in reverse logistics activities are extensively practiced by computer hardware industries. One of the important problems faced by the top management in the computer hardware industries is the evaluation of various alternatives for end-of-life (EOL) computers. Analytic network process (ANP) based decision model presented in this paper structures the problem related to options in rever...

The major concern of reverse logistics operations involves reducing costs, improving after sales service, waste disposal and providing good quality service in today's green environment. Process optimization involving uncertainty under set-up is a challenge. There need to consider the dynamics real situation because variation product/process characteristics make system more robust. A comparative...

disasters can cause many casualties and considerable destruction mainly because of ineffective preventive measures, incomplete preparedness, and weak relief logistics systems. after catastrophic events happen, quick and effective response is of great importance, so as to having an efficient logistic plan for distributing needed relief commodities efficiently and fairly among affected people. in...