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Multiple Criteria Evaluation of Global Transportation Systems - Analysis of Case Study

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Advanced Solutions of Transport Systems for Growing Mobility (TSTP 2017)

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The paper presents the evaluation and selection of the most desired finished goods transportation corridor of delivery for the company which operates in the household appliances industry. To decrease the production costs, the company relocated manufacturing process to China. That is the reason why it is necessary to find a transportation and logistics solution how to supply finished goods from China to the warehouses in central Poland (Lodz) on the most preferable conditions for the company and its customers. The top management of this international company (acting as a Decision Maker DM) is responsible for finding the most suitable supply chain of manufactured goods. To solve the problem the author of this paper implements the Multi-Criteria Decision Making/Aiding methodology. The decision problem is formulated as a multiple criteria ranking problem. Thus, the author designs alternative global transportation corridors between China and Central Europe (Poland) based on a multimodal transportation process. On this basis she defines different alternatives of delivering goods and evaluates them by a consistent family of criteria. The author models the DM’s preferences and carries out a series of computational experiments with the application of selected MCDM/A ranking methods, especially Electre III/IV and AHP methods. As a result it generates the final rankings of transportation options and gives the DM the most accurate transportation solution.

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Galińska, B. (2018). Multiple Criteria Evaluation of Global Transportation Systems - Analysis of Case Study. In: Sierpiński, G. (eds) Advanced Solutions of Transport Systems for Growing Mobility. TSTP 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 631. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62316-0_13

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