Abstract Picture fuzzy set (PFS) can intuitively express the answers of “yes”, “neutral”, “no” and “reject”, which have strong advantages in solving uncertain information. The similarity measure is an effective tool to determine relationship between two picture sets (PFSs). In this paper, we propose a hybrid (PF) combines Hamming distance transformed tetrahedral centroid verifies that it satisf...

Purpose Making techniques PROMETHEE, direction of research in this emerging field. Design/Methodology/Approach: literature related to MCDM techniques PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, VIKOR and TOPSIS. Literature has been segregated to understand various issues and work related to MCDM techniques PROMETHEE, ELECTRE, VIKOR and TOPSIS. A detailed review is used to sort out the literature and develop the resear...

How to select the suitable suppliers in the supply chain is critical for an organization’s success and has attracted much attention of both researchers and practitioners. Supplier selection can be regarded as a complex group multiple criteria decision making problem requiring consideration of a number of alternative suppliers and quantitative and qualitative criteria. Additionally, decision mak...

The VIKOR method was developed to solve MCDM problems with conflicting and noncommensurable (different units) criteria, assuming that compromising is acceptable for conflict resolution, the decision maker wants a solution that is the closest to the ideal, and the alternatives are evaluated according to all established criteria. This method focuses on ranking and selecting from a set of alternat...

In today’s environment, as the complexity of actual events develops, products become increasingly complicated. As a result, companies should collaborate to integrate disparate technologies while developing product or service. Additionally, collaborating with right supplier helps company increase flexibility, competitiveness, and profitability its goods services. The goal this study is look into...

Agile manufacturing (AM) system focuses on the customised production with shorter lead time in a cost effective manner. Conceptual design is vital phase of product development and AM obliges towards it. Selecting appropriate conceptual often involves consideration multiple factors, multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques facilitates resolving this problem. In study, hybrid fuzzy analyt...

Recently, resolving the problem of evaluation and ranking the potential suppliers has become as a key strategic factor for business firms. With the development of intelligent and automated information systems in the information era, the need for more efficient decision making methods is growing. The VIKOR method was developed to solve multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems with confl...

Problem statement: The “Energy Policy for Europe, EPE” and three environmental directives, proposed by the European Union (EU) in 2007, are stricter than those self-restrained by the enterprises. For this reason, the enterprises have to shortly improve their products for meeting with the strict requests setup by the EU. Consequently, it becomes even more important that the manufacturers evaluat...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to identify major barriers the implementation reverse logistics (RL). Also, study addresses best practices among reuse, remanufacture, recycling, refurbishment and repair as alternatives for RL processes. Design/methodology/approach This targets supply chain management experts their opinions regarding identification critical implementation. Their were ext...