An optimal maintenance strategy mix is necessary for increasing availability and reliability levels of production facilities without significantly increasing operational costs. The selection of maintenance strategies is a typical Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problem with conflicting goals. Consideration of interdependence among the criteria and alternative policies for maintenance s...

Many firms implemented various initiatives such as outsourced manufacturing which could make a supply chain (SC) more vulnerable to various types of disruptions. So managing risk has become a critical component of SC management. Different types of SC vulnerability management methodologies have been proposed for managing SC risk, most offer only point-based solutions that deal with a limited set...

Now-a-days, the globalization approach can be clearly observed in countries' movement toward the knowledge-based economy. It is inevitable to support knowledge-based institutions and companies in order to realize the expected goals including development of science and technology, meeting the domestic industries' needs and moving toward a knowledge-based economy. For this purpose, the main prior...

This paper proposes fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making approach integrated with fuzzy real option value theory. The applicability of the proposed method was shown on a real-world supermarket location selection problem. Based on the interviews with the experts, the evaluation criteria for retail location selection were identi ̄ed. Then the network for fuzzy analytic network process (ANP) method...

with the growth of public awareness for environmental protection, green production was raised as an important issue for each producer, which will guarantee its activity in long term. creating suppliers, performance assessment system is so necessary and important that it measures suitability of the suppliers for long-term cooperation with the company. many activities have been performed for sele...

Purpose International collaboration is a crucial requirement of entrepreneurship, particularly in developing emerging economies. This seems so necessary the food industry as major contributor to environmental, social and economic problems. paper aims identify, analyse influential network relationship prioritise key success factors (KSFs) international formation entrepreneurial with case study o...

In both the quality improvement and the design of a product, the engineering characteristics affecting product performance are primarily identified and improved to optimize customer needs (CNs). Especially, the limited resources and increased market competition and product complexity require a customer-driven quality management and product development system achieving higher customer satisfacti...