Assessment of Cost Effectiveness of a Firm Using Multiple Cost Oriented DEA and Validation with MPSS based DEA

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric tool for discriminating the best performers from a number of homogenous Decision Making Units (DMU). Cost oriented DEA models identify those best DMUs which run cost efficient process. This paper validates the outcome derived from the Ideal Frontier (mentioned in Sarkar. S (2014)) derived from non-central Principal Component Analysis and a slack based optimization model to identify the cost efficient DMUs. Instead of offering real cost of each resource, the proposed model minimizes the projection of inputs along the direction of first Eigenvector of specific covariance matrix from each allocated outputs. These essential directions vectors represent various "combined consumption (cost)" for the production of outputs. A Multi-Objective Fuzzy Goal Programming model is applied here to solve this multi-objective problem. Superiority is judged on the basis of higher value of a cost oriented performance ratio. A case study of six schools is incorporated here to identify the superior cost efficient school and also to visualize gaps in their performances.