Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in the Selection of Cargo Firms

AKARÇAY, Özlem | YAŞAR, Esra | AKGENÇ, Ertan

In recent years, developed technology has provided to facilitate forms of transportation, reduce the costs, introduce new markets and enhance various selection criteria offered by logistics companies. Competitive levels among logistics companies due to intensive customer demands are tend to increase and it has become a necessity to determine the most appropriate cargo firm in order to meet these demands. Moreover, decision- making about cargo firm is a curious issue for companies, since this process includes a hard work- flow. The objective of this study is to solve the problem about selecting ...Daha fazlası

Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process Application on Warehouse Performance Measurement Criteria Defined

YAŞAR, Esra | ARAS, Nil

Warehouse performance measurement is of great importance for the development of companies. The companies are to measure their current situation in order to attain ability relating to realizing the improvement process. In this measurement phase, they have to decide what is considered and what proportion it is done. In this study, the most effective factors were determined using the interval type-2 fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method for the factor values that are effective in warehouse performance measurement. The reason to use this solution method is that because of having 3 dimensional me ...Daha fazlası

Analytic Hierarchy Process (Ahp) Model for Assessment of Lean and Green Manufacturing Practices: A Case of Konya

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

In today’s highly competitive marketplace, continuous improvement efforts are one of the best strategy to improve products, services, or processes. To support continuous improvement, companies continually examine their processes to discover and eliminate problems. The impact of Lean and Green Manufacturing Practices (LGMP) that widely deemed as one of the most disseminated production systems have been showed by several authors. What are the emerging issues in research on lean and green manufacturing practices? What are the most preferred practices in lean and green logistics have on the enviro ...Daha fazlası

Adoption of Industry 4.0: A case of manufacturing firms in Turkey

YAŞAR, Esra | ULUSOY, Tuba | AKTAN, Mehmet

The fourth stage of industrialization that is called as Industry 4.0, is digitalization of manufacturing. Cloud technologies, The Internet of Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are some of the technologies that help to make manufacturing digitalized. Although these first applications were seen in Germany, some studies indicate that manufacturing firms from developing countries have started to use Industry 4.0 technologies. These firms are mostly aware that disregarding benefits of Industry 4.0 technologies may result with falling behind in global rivalry. Turkey is one of these cou ...Daha fazlası

Third-Part Logistics (3PL) Provider Assessment by Using Fuzzy AHP-VIKOR Apptoach

ÇALIK, Ahmet | ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan

Economic contractions, new communication technologies, and new market search have forced companies more outsourcing by shifting its operations geographically to distant countries. Transferring all or part of the logistics activities to the external firm(s) can be defined as outsourcing. Some of the opportunities to add value to companies through outsourcing: supply security, cost reduction, gaining flexibility in the supply chain, shortening average order cycle times, expanding market boundaries. When it is time to select a third-party logistics (3PL) provider for a particular use, companies s ...Daha fazlası

Turkey’s Forecasting of Energy Demand with Artificial Neural-Network

YAŞAR, Esra | UÇKUN, Ayşegül

Energy demand isincreasing day by day in parallel with economic growth, especially for the rapidly developing countries. In order to achieve a sustainable economic growth, long-term targets are being put to manage the operation of market in a good way. Turkey isan emerging and rapidlydeveloping country soits energy demand has increased rapidly to meet the growing economy. Therefore, forecasting Turkey’s energy demand accurately is of great importance toachieve a sustainable economic growth. The main goal of this study is to develop the equation for forecasting energy demand using the backpropa ...Daha fazlası

Competitive Power and Competitiveness: Comparison of Italy and Turkey in Machinery and Automotive Sectors

CURA, Fatih | GÜNDÜZ, Mehmet Akif | ÜZÜMCÜOĞLU, Mine

The automotive and the automotive supply industry are major contributors to a country's economy. The automotive and automotive supply industry in Turkey are heaped up especially in Marmara Region as well as in other regions and made considerable progress during past years. Bursa, Istanbul, Izmir, Kocaeli, Konya, Ankara, Adana and Manisa are cities, with high industiral density, which play an important role to keep the industry alive. The automotive and automotive supply industry, which started to operate in the mid-1950s, continued to gain momentum in the 1960s. In 1966, the mass automobile pr ...Daha fazlası

Uluslararası Pazarlama Beklentilerinin İhracata Etkisi Kadın Girişimciler Üzerine Bir Çalışma

GEDİK, Hasan | AFŞAR, Bilge | BÜYÜKDOĞAN, Birol

Küreselleşen dünyada artan rekabet ve yeni pazarlara girme isteği, girişimcileri uluslararasılaşma sürecine girmek zorunda bırakmaktadır. Bu süreç tüm dünyada faaliyet gösteren girişimcilerin rekabet güçlerini artırması için büyük önem taşımaktadır. Günümüzde kadınların aktif çalışma hayatına katılması, girişimcilik faaliyetlerinde bulunmaları, ülke ekonomileri için önemlidir. Konya'da faaliyet gösteren kadın girişimciler iş hayatında başarılı olmak için bir takım zorluk ve engellerle karşılaşsalar da rekabet güçlerini artırmak için bu süreçte yer almaya çalışmaktadırlar. Geçmiş çalışmalarda k ...Daha fazlası

Solution of Multi-Objective Optimization Model in FMS Design with Scalarization Methods

YAŞAR, Esra

Multi-objective optimization problems are more encountered in real life than single-objective optimization problems. Therefore, the solution of this multi-objective optimization problems has a critical importance due to its contribution to many areas. The objective function of operation allocation and material handling system selection in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) in the literature are created to minimize the costs related to the manufacturing operations, machines set up and material handling operations and to maximize the compatibility of the part types and the material handling equ ...Daha fazlası

The Role of NGO’s in City Marketing and Local Economic Development: The Case of Konya City

ÜNÜSAN, Çağatay

City marketing is the promotion of a city, or a district within it, with the aim of encouraging certain activities to take place in. It is used to change the external perceptions of a city in order to encourage tourism, attract inward migration of residents, or enable business relocation. Today, competition between cities exists at the regional, national and international level; and is an effect of globalization (Kotler, Haider, & Rein, 1993; Gordon, 1999; Smyth, 1994; Unusan & Sezgin, 2005; Dinnie, 2011)

Consumer Behaviour on Android Based Smartphones: Research of The Market Share Increase in Turkey With Ahp Approach

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

A Decision Model For Lean and Green Supply Chain Management Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet