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Globalization is one of the most important and dynamic changes in the last decades. Companies can globalize in different ways, such as: exporting, licensing, starting a production activity abroad. During the last few years, there has been an increasing number of companies choosing to globalize by starting a new plant abroad. Moreover, most models presented in literature are difficult to implement in real situations, mainly due to the following reasons: (1) many models do not manage both quantitative and non quantitative information together; (2) in globalization decisions a large number of elements are involved and their relationships are complex and difficult to model mathematically; (3) some models are crispy: they divide alternatives into good and bad, giving no idea about their degree of “goodness”. In this paper a Fuzzy Logic based Decision Support System that avoids these drawbacks is presented, and an implementation of the system in an European company that was undertaking a decision process for transferring abroad some production activities is described.
Results show the usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed tool.
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Portioli, A. (1997). A Fuzzy approach for the globalization of production activities. In: Plonka, F., Olling, G. (eds) Computer Applications in Production and Engineering. CAPE 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35291-6_11
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