Abstract
Companies pursuing extension of their activities and new companies in establishment phase are using various concepts and techniques to consider location decision, because location greatly affects both fixed and variable costs and on the overall profit of the company. This paper suggests a new use of quality function deployment (QFD) for facility location selection problem instead of applying it to traditional product quality promotion. Fuzzy sets concept is also incorporated to deal with imprecise nature of the linguistic judgments of decision makers. First, fuzzy QFD as a stand-alone approach is presented to address international facility location selection decision. To consider resource limitations and operational constraints, fuzzy goal programming is combined with fuzzy quality function deployment to present a developed approach to deal with global facility location-allocation decision. A demonstration of the applicability of proposed methodologies in a real-world problem is presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 263-290 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Feb 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Global facility location-allocation problem
- fuzzy quality function deployment
- fuzzy goal programming
- lnguistic variables
- fuzzy numbers