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...

The sustainable supplier selection process requires consideration of multi-criteria evaluations. In recent years, to prevent the hesitation of different linguistic expressions by the decision makers, and to help the selection of the best one as the solution of different alternatives, researchers have been using several methods such as hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTS), hesitant fuzzy ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Published by doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.063 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected], sanay During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of supplier selection is a complex multi-criteria problem including both quantitative and qualitative factor...

this paper processes a combined method, based on vikor and data envelopment analysis (dea) to select the units with most efficiency. we utilize the vikor as compromise solution method. this research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the alternatives, where each alternative has multiple inputs and outputs. the problem involves belief parameters in the solution procedure. first, the alt...

The material plays an important role in an engineering design process. The suitable material selection for a particular product is one of the vital tasks for the designers. In order to fulfil the product’s end requirements, designers need to analyze the performance of various materials and spot suitable materials with precise functionalities. Due to the presence of large number of materials wit...

Most multicriteria methods focus on ranking and selecting from a set of alternatives. These methods are usually used to compare all alternatives based on the synthesized scorings within a normalized scale with respect to the same criteria in multicriteria problems. However, the decision makers often simultaneously manage one or several alternatives/projects with conflicting and noncommensurable...

As a viable means to enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of aircraft manufacturing maintenance, three-dimensional (3D) printing has been extensively used in industry. However, due growing number suitable 3D printers often-high prices these printers, manufacturers still face many obstacles screening possible printers. In addition, dependencies between criteria make it difficult for de...

Humanitarian supply chains play a major role in enabling disaster-affected areas to recover timely manner and enable economic social activities be restored. However, the sudden onset increasing frequency of natural disasters such as flash floods require humanitarian resilient during relief process. In this study, evaluation indicators were identified from literature Delphi method, weights calcu...

Abstract The main objective of this article is to lay the foundations a novel multi-criteria optimization technique, namely, complex Pythagorean fuzzy N -soft VIKOR (CPFNS-VIKOR) method that highly proficient express great deal linguistic imprecision and vagueness inherent in human assessments. This strategy provides versatile decision-making tool for ranking-based modeling two-dimensional para...

Web services today are among the most widely used groups for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Service selection is one of the most significant current discussions in SOA, which evaluates discovered services and chooses the best candidate from them. Although a majority of service selection techniques apply Quality of Service (QoS), the behaviour of QoS-based service selection leads to servic...