A strategic model for selecting the location of furniture factories: a case of the study of furniture

Majid Azizi, Nemat Mohebbi, Rahim Mohebbi Gargari and Mohsen Ziaie

International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making, 2015, vol. 5, issue 1/2, 87-108

Abstract: Selecting the best place for a factory among some proposed locations based on various indices is a decision-making multi-criteria issue. This issue is one of the most critical steps in establishing the factory since the results of this decision will have economically, socially, environmentally and technologically significant effects in the long-run. Selecting the most appropriate provinces for establishing new manufacturing units of wooden furniture in Iran is the purpose of this study. Effective indicators in the location of the furniture industry were identified and a hierarchy was constructed based on five major groups of criteria. The weight of the indicators was then established by analytical hierarchy process. The amounts of the indicators with regard to alternatives were obtained from factories in public and private sectors. These weights were employed in TOPSIS to rank the alternatives. Finally, the potential provinces were identified according to the priorities obtained by this technique. The results indicated that Qom, Tehran and Razavi Khorasan provinces were the best priorities for establishing furniture industry plants.

Keywords: analytical hierarchy process; AHP; MCDM; fuzzy TOPSIS; multicriteria decision making; priority; alternatives; benefits; cost; deterministic; linguistic; furniture manufacturing; location selection; facilities location; factory location. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=67939 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijmcdm:v:5:y:2015:i:1/2:p:87-108

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().