Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis does not provide an analytical means to determine the importance of the identified factors or the ability to assess decision alternatives according to these factors. Although the analysis successfully pinpoints the factors, individual factors are usually described briefly and very generally. For this reason, SWOT analysis possesse...

The contradiction between economic development and environmental deterioration makes people begin to have a further understanding of the ecology and environment. To promote effective development of reverse logistics and implementation, according to general activity process of manufacturing enterprises, this paper builds the manufacturing system model of reverse logistics. On the basis of activi...

As the number of new products developed by new technologies has increased, the importance of the commercialization of new technology products has become crucial to manufactures in the successful delivery of valuable new products and services. This study classified success factors for commercialization of new products and analyzed which factors should be primarily considered. Based on the litera...

In this study we apply the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to evaluate the service quality of third-party logistics (3PL) service providers. We first conceptualize five dimensions of 3PL service quality (i.e. tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy). We then apply the AHP method to determine the relative weights of the five service quality dimensions and eventually select...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a case of using expert decision-making of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method to finding the best e-commerce platform. This study to finding five important factors are shop fee, annual fee, publication costs, transaction costs and security by vendors, merchants and customers; after using expert questionnaires to choice four shopping platforms (yahoo...

the present study was conducted to determine the most appropriate tree species planted in the same ecological condition considering different variables at darabkola forest, mazandran province. for this purpose, the success of planted species (maple, walnut, oak, pine, ash and elm) was assessed according to ninecriteria (soil nitrogen, soil phosphorus, soil potassium, leaf nitrogen, leaf phospho...

a suitable location plays an important role in the competitiveness of a plant inthe market and should be selected such that it allows access to strategic advantagescompared with other competitors. the aim of the current study was identificationoptimized location of fluting paper plant from agricultural residues in mazandaranprovince using the analytical hierarchy process (ahp). after performing...

landfill site selection is an important action in integrated solid waste management process. different criteria should be considered in site selection. therefore using special methods are necessary to evaluate the criteria. the object of the current study was to determine and select suitable sites for solid waste landfill in shiraz city regarding the observation of environmental matters by usin...