The practicality of novel network optimization models based on innovative combination of financial and market-based factors such as price, cost, quality, and supplier’s contribution background is irrefutable. In this study a hybrid approach (Fuzzy Analytic Network Process and Genetic Algorithm) is applied to provide more efficiency in the decision-making process.

A novel concept to balance and tradeoff between make-to-stock and make-to-order has been hybrid MTS/MTO production context. One of the most important decisions involved in the hybrid MTS/MTO environment is determining whether a product is manufactured to stock, to order, or hybrid MTS/MTO strategy. In this paper, a model based on analytic network process is developed to tackle the addressed dec...

Abstract   The Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a generalization of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The basic structure is an influence network of clusters and nodes contained within the clusters. Priorities are established in the same way they are in the AHP using pairwise comparisons and judgment. Many decision problems cannot be structured hierarchically because they involve the inter...

This research aims at presenting a fuzzy model to evaluate and select Six-Sigma projects.  For this purpose, a model of fuzzy analytic network process (ANP) was designed to consider the relation and mutual impact among the factors. In order to evaluate the projects, nine sub-criteria were considered which were classified into three categories of business, finance and procedural ones. Also to co...

in the recent years, increasing use of limited resources causes severe damages to the environment. this lead to increase environmental concerns in societies. resource waste reduction can control these damages. as food waste causes a lot of resource waste, controlling this waste is very important to reduce damages to the environment. this paper considers the environmental importance of food pack...

increasing global notices in environmental protection, green supply chain management (gscm) has received much attention by researchers and managers more than the past. commonly, firms have considered cost criteria to select their suppliers. despite the fact that there are various papers considering the formal criteria in supplier selection, there is a few limited numbers considering the environ...