A new systematic approach for warehouse management system evaluation

Abstract

Original scientific paper Warehouse management is one of the most important legs in supply chain operations and production management. To support that warehouse execution, a warehouse management system is required. Many warehouses have used various methods to handle this difficult and time consuming evaluation process. The purpose of this paper is to provide a decision support model to make a careful evaluation of warehouse management system. Purchasing an appropriate warehouse management system in a supply value chain is not an easy decision making and is related to fuzziness and uncertainty, which should be considered as a large number of complex factors in multiple evaluation criteria. A Fuzzy Multi Criteria Decision Making approach is adopted to effectively evaluate warehouse management systems. To provide a practical guidance for other companies a real life framework is presented with an application. Keywords: ELECTRE; Fuzzy AHP; Fuzzy ANP; Fuzzy Multi Criteria Decision Making; TOPSIS; warehouse management system Novi sustavni pristup ocjenjivanju sustava upravljanja skladištemIzvorni znanstveni članak Upravljanje skladištem je jedan od najvažnijih čimbenika u operacijama lanca opskrbe i upravljanja proizvodnjom. Kao podrška vođenju skladišta, potreban je sustav upravljanja skladištem. Mnoga su skladišta koristila različite metode za provođenje tog teškog i dugotrajnog procesa evaluacije. Cilj ovoga rada je stvoriti model za podršku donesenim odlukama o ocjeni sustava upravljanja skladištem. Kupnja odgovarajućeg sustava za upravljanje skladištem u lancu opskrbe nije laka odluka i povezana je s nejasnoćama i nesigurnošću, odnosno velikim brojem složenih čimbenika u višestrukim kriterijima ocjenjivanja. Za učinkovitu ocjenu sustava upravljanja skladištem usvojen je pristup zasnovan na brojnim nejasnim kriterijima (Fuzzy Multi Criteria Decision Making). Kao praktičan vodič za druge kompanije dat je prikaz realnog stanja s primjenom.

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