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<p>Relevant indicators and measurement methods should be assessed in order to contribute to optimize management of an enterprise. Business performance can be measured by various indicators and various business results could be assessed. Analyses of value chains should be focused on specification of so called bottle necks which mention those activities that disable to increase business margin. At the same time, these analyses show the inefficiency caused by oversized of some activities regarding to lower level of assurance or safety and lower performance of other business activities. Importance of multi criteria decision-making methods for evaluation of alternatives doesn´t lie in definite increasing of results objectivity although it should lead to that. Priority of this method lies mainly in simplification of manager´s decision making. It allows managers to arrange alternatives according to extensive file of criteria, it describes particular steps of solution and its logical sequence, this methodology also requires from managers to express their understanding of various criteria importance. All this process of solution is transparent, repeatable and there are evident starting assumptions and also how these assumptions, situations, criteria and incidents affect reached results.</p>
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Relevant indicators and measurement methods should be assessed in order to contribute to optimize management of an enterprise. Business performance can be measured by various indicators and various business results could be assessed. Analyses of value chains should be focused on specification of so called bottle necks which mention those activities that disable to increase business margin. At the same time, these analyses show the inefficiency caused by oversized of some activities regarding to lower level of assurance or safety and lower performance of other business activities. Importance of multi criteria decision-making methods for evaluation of alternatives doesn´t lie in definite increasing of results objectivity although it should lead to that. Priority of this method lies mainly in simplification of manager´s decision making. It allows managers to arrange alternatives according to extensive file of criteria, it describes particular steps of solution and its logical sequence, this methodology also requires from managers to express their understanding of various criteria importance. All this process of solution is transparent, repeatable and there are evident starting assumptions and also how these assumptions, situations, criteria and incidents affect reached results.

Multi Criteria Decision Making Model for Logistics Processes in Particular Enterprise

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Relevant indicators and measurement methods should be assessed in order to contribute to optimize management of an enterprise. Business performance can be...

Multi Criteria Decision Making Model for Logistics Processes in Particular Enterprise

Published Online: Mar 28, 2019

Page range: 522 - 531

Received: Nov 07, 2018

Accepted: Dec 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2019-0067

Keywords
decision making, multi criteria methods, purchasing logistics, optimization

© 2019 Patrik Aláč, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Multi Criteria Decision Making Model for Logistics Processes in Particular Enterprise

Published Online: Mar 28, 2019

Page range: 522 - 531

Received: Nov 07, 2018

Accepted: Dec 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/czoto-2019-0067

Keywordsdecision making, multi criteria methods, purchasing logistics, optimization

© 2019 Patrik Aláč, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
decision making, multi criteria methods, purchasing logistics, optimization