Original scientific paper In the present conditions of market globalization and thus increased market competition, the purchasing department and management structure of the company, in addition to answering questions what, how many and when to buy at what price, has also to be answered the question about an appropriate supplier. Supplier selection as well as the efficient inventory control can ...

There are many different multi-criteria decision making methods in the literature. These methods, which enable criteria with measurement units to be examined together, allow choosing between alternatives. However, can produce results depending on data set. The aim of this study is combine obtained by applying set Copeland method. To end, a problem real was first addressed. Technical motorcycle ...

In this paper, instead of the classical approach to the multi-criteria location selection problem, a new approach was presented based on selecting a portfolio of locations. First, the indices affecting the selection of maintenance stations were collected. The K-means model was used for clustering the maintenance stations. The optimal number of clusters was calculated through the Silhou...

One of the critical activities for outsourcing success is outsourcing provider selection, which may be regarded as a type of fuzzy heterogeneous multiattribute decision making (MADM) problems with fuzzy truth degrees and incomplete weight information. The aim of this paper is to develop a new fuzzy linear programming method for solving such MADM problems. In this method, the decision maker’s pr...

Mining method selection is one of the most critical and problematic activities of mining engineering. The ultimate goals of mining method selection are to maximize company profit, maximize recovery of the mineral resources and provide a safe environment for the miners by selecting the method with the least problems among the feasible alternatives. Selection of an appropriate mining method is a ...

An important phase of human resource management is personnel selection, which is concerned with identifying an individual from a pool of candidates suitable for a vacant position. As with many decision problems, personnel selection problem is very complex in real life. Some of the techniques in decision making are multi criteria decision making (MCDM) which can be applied for personnel selectio...

With the growing population increase and following young population’s desire to study at university, political authorities are supporting university higher education investments, especially in last 10 years. This situation has increased number of universities considerably. Because a will provide socioeconomic dynamism both development country region, choosing right location become significant p...

Often, data in MCDM problems are imprecise and changeable due to the mandatory participation of human judgement, which is often unclear vague. Hence, selection an appropriate method crucial optimal decision-making. All methods heavily affected by individual or group preferences therefore even a small change can cause rank-reversal. With regular proliferation such their modifications, it importa...

A proper CNC machine selection problem is an important issue for manufacturing companies under competitive market conditions. The of improper tool can cause many problems such as production capabilities and productivity indicators considering time money industrially practically. In this paper, a comprehensive solution approach presented the according to determined criteria. Seven main thirteen ...