%0 Journal Article
	%A B. Vahdani and  S. M. Mousavi and  R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
	%D 2013
	%J International Journal of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 78, 2013
	%T Plant Location Selection by Using a Three-Step Methodology: Delphi-AHP-VIKOR
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1952
	%V 78
	%X Nowadays, the plant location selection has a critical
impact on the performance of numerous companies. In this paper, a
methodology is presented to solve this problem. The three decision
making methods, namely Delphi, AHP and improved VIKOR, are
hybridized in order to make the best use of information available
based on the decision makers or experts. In this respect, the aim of
using Delphi is to select the most influential criteria by a few decision
makers. The AHP is utilized to give weights of the selected criteria.
Finally, the improved VIKOR method is applied to rank alternatives.
At the end of paper, an application example demonstrates the
applicability of the proposed methodology.
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