tailieunhanh - A novel holistic approach for solving the multi-criteria transshipment problem for infectious waste management

The study results demonstrated that the proposed holistic approach can help decision makers (DMs) to choose a suitable transshipment network for IWM. | A novel holistic approach for solving the multi-criteria transshipment problem for infectious waste management Decision Science Letters 8 2019 441 454 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Decision Science Letters homepage dsl A novel holistic approach for solving the multi-criteria transshipment problem for infectious waste management Narong Wichapaa and Porntep Khokhajaikiatb aDepartment of Industrial Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Technology Kalasin University Kalasin 46000 Thailand bDepartment of Industrial Engineering Faculty of Engineering Khon Kaen University Khon Kaen 40002 Thailand CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Effective transshipment network is currently recognized as an important success determinant for Received February 2 2019 most manufacturing organizations because the transshipment management has significant Received in revised format impact on cost and environmental impact. Due to the complexity of the multi-criteria May 2 2019 transshipment problem for infectious waste management IWM for this case forty hospitals and Accepted May 14 2019 Available online three candidate disposal municipalities in Northeastern Thailand a novel holistic approach May 14 2019 combination of fuzzy AHP transshipment model and DEA was developed for solving this Keywords problem. We first utilized the fuzzy AHP technique to calculate the location weights of each Multi-criteria decision making candidate disposal municipalities. Secondly a new cost-based transshipment model was Transshipment problem formulated and solved in order to provide the set of feasible solutions. These solutions can be Fuzzy AHP viewed as decision making units DMUs inputs and outputs. Finally DEA-CCR model was Data envelopment analysis applied to calculate the efficiency scores of candidate DMUs. The study results demonstrated that the proposed holistic approach can help decision makers DMs to choose a suitable transshipment network for IWM. The .