Utility of Ranking Warehouse Candidates in Workshop Locations Using UTAStar

Subject Areas : Statistics

M. Ehsanifar ¹ , F. Hossein zadeh lotfi ²

1 - Graduate of Post-Doctoral in Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics (Operations Research), Faculty of Basic Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-10-22 Accepted : 2017-11-13 Published : 2018-01-01

Keywords: یابی انبار, تصمیم‌گیری چند شاخصه, روش مطلوبیت تجمعی ستاره,

Abstract :

Although the importance of locating in manufacturing and service companies is not a new issue, one of significance applications is to determine the appropriate location for warehouses in manufacturing workshops warehouses to the maintenance of materials or products. In any organizations, Finding the suitable site for warehouses establishments to increase customer service and efficiency is one of the most important and costly issues. The warehouse location is the main decision and structurally multi-criteria that includes quantitative and qualitative objectives. In this study, we apply an MADM technique to achieve the primary ranking for the proposed and potential warehouse locations of the company, and then put them as the input of the UTAStar, which is a new and more practical to inference utility functions from past decision data. We will investigate the utility of the results and define the desirability of ranked options for evaluating and selecting of warehouse space.

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