Supply chain management (SCM) and total quality management (TQM) are two of the important tools that manufacturing companies use to achieve competitive advantage. Some of the important capabilities that these companies seek to acquire through the use of these tools to be able to compete effectively include quality, efficiency, and innovation (Daghfous, 2004). Quality is an important factor in t...

the aim of this research was to measure the relative efficiency of forest management plans in north of iran. in order to fulfill the research, data of 12 forest management plans were collected from the financial balance sheets of shafaroud forest company during a ten years period. first of all, basic data envelopment analysis (dea) models (bcc and ccr) were used to determine the efficiency. the...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an approach based on linear programming to assess the relative efficiency of peer Decision Making Units (DMUs). Typically, each DMU is free to choose the weights of the factors used in its evaluation. However, the evaluator’s preferences may not warrant so much freedom. Several approaches have been proposed to allow the incorporation of managerial preferences ...

As a non-parametric technique, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the relative efficiency of peer decision making units (DMUs) that have multiple inputs and outputs. In many situations, DMUs have a two-stage structure, where * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Ashrafi) 1436 A. Ashrafi, A. B. Jaafar, L. S. Lee and M. R. Abu Bakar the first stage uses inputs to ...

every country actively and initiatively takes all kinds of policy steps to improve the international competitiveness of its industries and therefore improve national integrated competitiveness for the purpose of gaining economic benefits under the context of economic globalization. therefore, studies of moreover, projects launched by the cluster had to be endorsed by the growers and one criteri...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA), as a well-established nonparametric method, is used to meet efficiency evaluation purposes in many businesses, organizations, and decision units. This paper aims to present a novel integrated approach to fuzzy interpretive structural modeling (FISM) and dynamic network data envelopment analysis (DNDEA) for the selection and ranking of sustainable suppliers. Firs...

Spurred by intensifying competition in global markets, most companies have been increasingly implementing supply chain management (SCM) and information systems (IS) practices. As well, globalization policies have created a more intensive competition amongst manufacturers; in additional the priority of supply over demand, market competition and importance of some factor such as quality, accounta...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been applied in many efficiency studies in the banking sector. Conventional DEA models consider the system as a single-process black box. There are however a number of so-called network DEA approach that consider the system as composed by distinct processes or stages, each one with its own inputs and outputs and with intermediate flows among the stages. In th...

The paper deals with models and methods for evaluation of efficiency of production units. The standard modeling approach for evaluation of efficiency is data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on the definition of efficiency as the ratio of outputs produced by the unit and inputs spent in the production process. Standard data envelopment analysis models divide the units into inefficient and effic...