A new approach for multi-criteria ABC analysis

Manufacturing enterprises need to manage many inventory items.To effectively managethe inventory,a usual practice is to classify the inventory items into several groups and use differentmanagement strategies for the items in different groups.ABC classification has been widely used,and has evolved into various multi-criteria classification schemes.Recently,a few multi-criteriaABC classification approaches using variable weights appeared in the literature.This paper analyzestheir properties and proposes an improved approach.A numerical example is included to illustratethe appropriateness of the proposed approach.
Inventory management ABC analysis multi-criteria classification
R.Jiang X.N.Yuan
Changsha University of Science and Technology,China
国际会议
成都
英文
2008-08-04(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)