In today’s competitive environment evaluating firms’ performance properly, is an important issue not only for investors and creditors but also for the firms that are in the same sector. Determining the competitiveness of the firms and evaluating the financial performance of them is also crucial for the sector’s development. The aim of this study is developing a fuzzy model to evaluate the perfo...

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...

introduction: balanced scorecard (bsc) is regarded as one of the successful tools in performance measurement. however, it neither absolutely nor comparatively provides the weight of each perspective and indicators related to each perspective. in this study, we applied a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fahp) to weight the perspectives and bsc indicators in hospital. methods: this applied, de...

With the continuous development of economy and technology, the importance of logistics services has gained more and more attention in the whole industry chain. Collaborative operation between manufacturing companies and logistics companies can improve operational efficiency and save the cost for the enterprise by the way of simplify the transaction process in the supplying chain and reducing th...

Multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) research has developed rapidly and has become a main area of research for dealing with complex decision problems. The purpose of the paper is to explore the performance evaluation model. This paper develops an evaluation model based on the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and the technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution, fuzzy TOPS...

The changes in the philosophy of management in parallel to the developing technology have changed the point of view of organizations to human resources and resulted in significant differences in the content of human resources management. One of the topics which became more important in parallel to this change is the evaluation of the employer performances objectively. An objective performance e...

The design of machining fixtures is a highly complex process that heavily relies on designer experience and his/her implicit knowledge to achieve a good design. The determination of fixturing scheme is an optimizing problem with multi-objective and multiconstraint. In order to evaluate the fixturing scheme objectively, a fixturing design scheme selection objective system is developed according ...

In the current volatile and demanding business environment, managers are so eager to demonstrate that their organizations are excellent which can mainly be achieved through continuous performance improvement. The most applicable and suitable tools that by the assessment of organizations shows how successful they are in the organizational excellence path is European Foundation for Quality Manage...