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Sustainable transportation has also an important role in supply chain and logistics management. It constructs the basis of sustainable supply chain management. Identifying the most appropriate transportation service provider requires considering multiple conflicting criteria that are organized in a hierarchical structure. In this research, a hierarchical fuzzy multi-criteria decision making procedure is used in order to evaluate transportation service providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 pandemic has changed the processes and routines of business life. Employees have started to apply home office as part of the precautions of the infection. In this study, the factors that affect the success and efficiency of home office are evaluated, and their importance weights are determined. Causal links among the factors, positive as well as negative relations between pair of criteria, and lack of crisp data lead to employ fuzzy cognitive map as an appropriate methodology to success factors of home office in pandemic period. The application is illustrated through a case study, which is conducted in a consulting firm that performs in Turkey. The results are compared with intuitionistic fuzzy cognitive map technique. Intuitionistic fuzzy cognitive maps are used when interrelationships among evaluation criteria, fuzziness, vagueness, and hesitation in data are present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective in the establishment of organized industrial zones is to achieve a balanced industrial development in the country in order to eliminate the differences between regions, to increase employment and qualified labor force in the regions. Organ ized industrial zones with low occupancy rates lead the question of if the organized industrial zones perform efficiently. In this work, rank-order according to the efficiency scores of organized industrial zones located in the Aegean Region of Turkey is obtained by employing a data envelopment analysis model, and the ranking results are compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increase in human population day by day, the amount of waste generated from the foods that consumed increases in the same direction. Today, with the increasing population and developing technology, the waste that is generated has become an important issue for countries. For this reason, countries have aimed to apply appropriate recycling techniques, taking into account the characteristics of their location and multiple criteria. As a conclusion, meticulous work is required for the decision of where the waste facilities in the specified recycling technique will be located. In this study, the evaluation criteria for solid waste facility location problem are determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Job evaluation can be defined as the process of finding the value of a job by comparing it systematically with other jobs. In order for the wages paid to be fair, the value of the work should be provided by using scientific methods, adhering to the principle of paying equal wages for equal work. The criteria that determine the importance of the business are the business areas that affect the success and profitability rate of the company. Based on these reasons, in this study, job evaluation criteria in the energy sector are determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the planned development era began in the early 1960s in Turkey, organized industrial zones began to be established in each province. Organized industrial zones with low occupancy rates lead the question of if the organized industrial zones perform efficiently. In this work, rank-order according to the efficiency scores of OIZs located in the Aegean Region of Turkey is obtained by employing minimax efficiency model, and the ranking results are compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital age lead the companies to adapt digital transformation into their processes to survive in changing business and market requirements. Especially, banks need to integrate digitalization into their each component in order to reduce cost and engage customer experience. In this work, the factors that encourage the banks for adapting digital transformation into their core processes are evaluated, and their importance weights are determined. Intuitionistic fuzzy cognitive map is an appropriate technique due to the presence of interrelationships among evaluation criteria, fuzziness, vagueness, and hesitation in data. The application is illustrated through a case study, which is conducted in a bank that performs in Turkish banking sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today’s competitive business environment, the distributor selection process is very crucial as the performance of distributors has become the key of the success in the global markets. In addition to traditional criteria, risk factors should be considered when selecting a suitable distributor among multiple alternatives. This paper presented a fuzzy approach to prioritize risk criteria for a distributor selection problem in automation industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study proposes a multi-criteria decision approach, called as fuzzy cognitive map (FCM), which represents experts' knowledge and human experience, and aims to evaluate performance indicators of suppliers in the textile industry by introducing concepts to define criteria and causality links among the concepts for modeling a system's behavior. The contribution of the study will be the fact that any other researcher has not been incorporated the FCM methodology into the supplier performance evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Selecting the most suitable ship from a group of ship alternatives is a very critical decision to improve the efficiency of maritime supply chain activities. Linguistic assessments are used to incorporate the imprecise judgments inherent in ship evaluation and selection process. This paper proposes to employ 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic representation model for ship selection which is a complex decision making problem involving multiple criteria. The 2-tuple representation model provides to manage linguistic variables without loss of information. A numerical example illustrates the application of the proposed multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]