Abstract
Modern businesses face a more severe and challenging environment than before. For example, if an enterprise is requested to provide adequate commodities to its customers in different areas, it should be able to determine its own supply chain (SC) at the lowest-cost level immediately. If the enterprise’s response is not in time, the customers will feel unsatisfied and reduce their loyalty. The SC problem is formulated as a multi-level decision making problem in this study. Study results show that the fuzzy multi-objective approach can easily provide a satisfied solution at an acceptable achievement level of desired goals. Therefore, our study is valuable when designing a large-scale SC for practical use.
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Chen, YW., Tzeng, GH. (2002). Fuzzy Multi-objective Approach to the Supply Chain Model. In: Trzaskalik, T., Michnik, J. (eds) Multiple Objective and Goal Programming. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 12. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1812-3_17
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