Office location selection by fuzzy AHP and VIKOR

Abstract

In a globalised business world, reaching the basic goal of companies which is profit maximisation has become such competitive for both manufacturing and service firms. While reaching this basic goal, increasing income is not sufficient, but also minimising the costs is required. One of the long-term cost decisions, location selection, needs to be considered in detailed by business firms. Especially for a firm in service sector, there are other goals and responsibilities such as satisfying permanently changing needs and expectations of customers. As the wedding sector has a growing share in the economy, the choice of office location for companies operating in this sector has gained great importance. In the light of this purpose, there are some criteria determined in location selection decision for a business firm which operates in the wedding sector. In this research, the criteria used in office location selection have been chosen by literature review and experts' views. These criteria are weighted by fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Then, using the weighted criteria, the best option among the alternative offices from different locations is chosen by Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) technique.

Integration of Scor and Fuzzy Ahp for Location Selection of Edible White Copra Agro-Industry

“…Finally, the AHP-PROMETHEE method requires model testing (Abdel-Basset et al, 2021). This research is a research development of previous works (Ilbahar et al, 2021), (Abdullah et al, 2023), (Arar et al, 2019), (Memari et al, 2019;Arunyanart et al, 2021).…”

“…In this case, this work sets the criteria for site selection decisions to ensure that the agro-industry established in that location can be sustainable. Several studies on location selection for both the manufacturing industry, service industry and agro-industry have been carried out, including determining the industrial waste landfill (Hanine et al, 2017), coconut sugar (Wardah et al, 2022), Hospitals (Eldemir and Onden 2016), selection of fire stations (Nyimbili and Erden, 2020), industries (Mytilinou, 2017;Ozdemir and Sahin, 2018;Aly, 2020), cement plant (Mirhadi Fard et al, 2016), solar power plant (Kabir and Sumi, 2014;Al Garni and Awasthi, 2017;Otay and Jaller, 2020;Genger et al, 2021), sanitary landfill site selection (Sk 2020;Ilbahar et al, 2021), methods for choosing a municipal landfill (Ali and Ahmad, 2020), utility tunnels (Genger et al, 2021), construction (Yeoh, 2017), offices (Arar et al, 2019), and distributors (Karaşan, 2019). Some of these studies have not reported the location selection of edible white copra agro-industry.…”

“…However, many parameter uncertainties remain (Ilbahar et al, 2021). Abdullah et al, 2023 andArar, Karaoǧlan, et al, 2019 selected locations with fuzzy AHP, which still needs to identify beyond economic, social and safety aspects (Abdullah et al, 2023), while the use of fuzzy AHP and VIKOR (Arar et al, 2019) needs to expand criteria and alternatives.…”

A New Method Based on PROMETHEE and TODIM for Multi-Attribute Decision-Making with Single-Valued Neutrosophic Sets

“…For the MADM problems, a series of decision-making methods have been developed, such as PROMETHEE [4], TOPSIS [5], TODIM [6,7], VIKOR [8], ELECTRE [9], etc. [10].…”