A MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS APPROACH TO PALLET SELECTION: DEVELOPMENT OF A MATERIAL-OF-CONSTRUCTION EVALUATION MODEL
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Published:2021
Issue:2
Volume:32
Page:
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ISSN:1012-277X
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Container-title:The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering
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language:
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Short-container-title:SAJIE
Author:
Chama Chama,Harding Kevin,Mulopo Jean,Chego Paul
Abstract
Although pallets have traditionally been constructed from wood, there has been a shift towards making them from plastic and other composite materials. Subsequently, the storage and transportation industry has been inundated with questions about ‘the best’ pallet material type in relation to a supply chain. In addition, in a rapidly changing global manufacturing and storage environment, industry players have difficulty justifying the high capital cost of adopting new state-of-the-art pallets. This paper seeks to build a model to identify the best pallet material-of-construction (MOC) as perceived by the end consumer. The approach used for this was based on different stages of building an assistive multi-criteria decision model. This included modelling the decision framework using the analytic hierarchy process and undertaking an independent case study as the baseline for the modelling.
Publisher
Stellenbosch University
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Cited by
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