THE USE OF ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY METHOD IN FACTORY ESTABLISHMENT PLACEMENT TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN FURNITURE INDUSTRY

Abstract

The all variables should be taken into consideration when determining the location of factories which are the most important source of industrial wastes in the prevention of environmental pollution. Enterprises around the world have been subject to several problems in today's conditions of competition. Effective supplier selection is among these problems for enterprises to achieve their market goals, a vast number of qualitative and quantitative methods and conservation of natural environmental conditions from furniture industrial pollutant have been developed in this context. One of these methods is the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a multi-criteria decision making method. With its numerous inputs used in the manufacturing process, furniture industry has a vast supplier network. Accordingly, while selecting their suppliers, it is essential for furniture enterprises to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and to take optimal decisions in line with their goals, as during the supplier selection process enterprises seek to choose among the suppliers that are capable of constantly supplying their demands with desired price, in desired quality and quantity, and in a timely fashion. In this research, an AHP application was implemented for addressing the supplier selection problem in a furniture enterprise operating in Marmara Region of Turkey. In this context, a number of criteria, selected on the basis of their significance levels, were organized in a hierarchical form, and comparisons were made to scientifically determine the optimal supplier alternative upon a reliable evaluation process.