Purchasing occupies a strategic role in supply chain management for a firm and is the driver
of competitive advantage. Owing to the high purchase cost to revenue ratio, decisions such …

This research aims to analyze a literature review of publications that have incorporated the
Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) methods. The AHP …

Abstract The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a reliable, rigorous, and robust method
for eliciting and quantifying subjective judgments in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) …

Recent years have seen a rapid development in industrialization and urbanization with a
huge growth in the population throughout the world. In this regard, an efficient and robust …

There are many cases in daily life and in the workplace which pose a decision problem.
Some of them involve picking the best from among multiple available alternatives. However …

Within data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a sub-group of papers in which many
researchers have sought to improve the differential capabilities of DEA and to fully rank both …

Credit risk evaluation is always the most important factor in determining Customers' credit
status in financial institutions. Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) methods have been …

While Contract Farming (CF) can enhance smallholders' income in developing countries,
empirical research on the motivation of smallholders to participate in CF is scarce. This …

The layout design problem is a strategic issue and has a significant impact on the efficiency
of a manufacturing system. Much of the existing layout design literature that uses a surrogate …

This paper reviews the literature on the ranking of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in order
to increase the discrimination power of this analytical technique. The methods covered by …