Decision-making from multiple uncertain experts: case of distribution center location selection
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Decision-making from multiple uncertain experts: case of distribution center location selection Maroi Agrebi1
· Mourad Abed1
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The location selection of distribution center covers one of the important strategic decision issues for the logistics system managers. In view of the inherent uncertainty and inaccuracy of human decision-making, the future behavior of the market and companies, this paper adopts the improved multi-attribute and multi-Actor decision-making (MAADM) method as a fuzzy multi-attribute and multi-actor decision-making (FMAADM) method for solving the selection problem under an uncertain environment. The great strengths of our proposed method are: first, the integration of the decision-makers group preferences into the decision-making process, second, the consideration of the informations related to the alternatives and the criteria weights which are inaccurate, uncertain or incomplete, third, the verification of the obtained solution by both tests of concordance and non-discordance. To validate the FMAADM method, a decision support system was developed. Different experiments were provided based on comparative analysis of results and the sensitivity analysis. These experiments demonstrate the efficiency of our proposed method and its superiority over another existing methods. Keywords Distribution center location selection · Multi-attribute decision-making · Multiple uncertain experts · Uncertain preferences · Fuzzy set theory
1 Introduction In an urban context, the city functioning means an important rate of freight transportation. This functioning relies on various physical facilities, as shown in Fig. 1. These facilities are considered as real drivers of logistics systems. Therefore, the location selection of logistics facilities is viewed as one of the main strategic issues of distribution system for the logistics systems managers (Agrebi et al. 2016; Klose and Drexl 2005). Indeed, the best location of logistics facilities contributes to the logistics service quality and plays a key role for operation in the future (Lee 2014). In terms of logistical system design, location selection decisions are of high priority, since such decisions involve long-term comCommunicated by V. Loia.
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LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Jonas Building, Le Mont Houy, 59313 Valenciennes Cedex 9, France
mitment of resources and generally represent a substantial investment, which may affect the long-term profitability and sustainability of the firm. Besides, these decisions are usually irreversible (Cagri Tolga et al. 2013). The distribution center location, as a special case of logistics facilities location, plays an important role not only in minimizing traffic congestion and pollution, but also in decreasing transport cost and maximizing of profit (Eldemir and Onden 2016). Moreover, a good location of distribution c
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