MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION- MAKING APPROACH IN SINGLE FACILITY LOCATION SELECTION: A PROPOSAL FOR AN INTEGRATED MODEL

Year 2024, Volume: 15 Issue: 29, 129 - 162, 28.06.2024

Oktay Yanık

https://doi.org/10.36543/kauiibfd.2024.006

Abstract

Selecting the right single-plant facility is crucial to maximizing the use of limited resources and minimizing effort waste. This study aims to provide decision-makers with a practical and effective approach that is as far as possible from individual subjective judgments when deciding on a single-plant facility. It differs from some other studies in the literature that leave the prioritization and weighting of criteria in the background in that it proposes a model in which decision-makers can determine their criteria for the location selection of a single facility and determine the extent to which these criteria are present in their alternatives. The step-wise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) and the weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) methods were used with an integrated approach. The results revealed that the approach used in this study was highly successful in the selection of a community pharmacy facility as a single-plant organization.

Keywords

Pharmacy management, single-plant organization, facility location selection

TEKLİ TESİS YERİ SEÇİMİNDE ÇOK KRİTERLİ KARAR VERME YAKLAŞIMI: ENTEGRE BİR MODEL ÖNERİSİ

Abstract

Tek tesisli organizasyonlarda kuruluş yerinin doğru bir şekilde seçilmesi, sınırlı kaynakların kullanımını en üst düzeye çıkarmak ve çabaların boşa gitmemesini sağlamak açısından oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, karar vericilere tek tesisli kuruluş yeri seçiminde bireysel subjektif yargılardan mümkün olduğunca uzak, pratik ve etkili bir yaklaşım sunmaktır. Bu çalışma kriterlerin önceliklendirilmesi ve ağırlıklandırılması hususlarını geri planda bırakan literatürdeki diğer bazı çalışmalardan farklı olarak tek tesisli bir organizasyonun kuruluş yeri seçiminde karar vericilerin kendi kriterlerini belirleyip, mevcut alternatiflerde bu kriterlerin ne ölçüde bulunduğunu tespit edebileceği bir model önermektedir. Kademeli ağırlık değerlendirme oranı analizi (SWARA) ve birleşik ağırlıklandırılmış toplam çıktı değerlendirmesi (WASPAS) yöntemleri bütünleşik bir yaklaşımla kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen sonuçlar, bu araştırmada kullanılan yaklaşımın, bir tek tesisli organizasyon olarak serbest eczane yerinin seçilmesinde oldukça başarılı olduğunu ortaya koymuştur.

Keywords

Eczane işletmeciliği, tek tesisli organizasyon, tesis yeri seçimi

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