Evaluating the Function of Transportation (Logistic) Companies based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP): Iran Case Study

Industries competitive atmosphere in the present era encounters big challenges such as globalization, human capital, and new technologies, if they are dealt without a definite integrated and strategic structure. A major way of determining the deficiencies and strong points and identifying the opportunities and outer threats to the transportation companies is to evaluate their performance. How to the evaluation has always been questionable. It enables the companies to diagnose their positive and negative characteristics and find out whether their performance encounters any irrational issue or not to promote their management. The current project attempts to depict an appropriate method to evaluate small and medium groups of transportation companies according to four financial criteria, including appropriate innovation, occupation, commerce, and customers. Hence, an evaluation model based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which includes the four aforesaid criteria and sub-criteria, has been proposed. The research findings indicate that the executed system is rational and the evaluation results are acceptable

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Transportation (logistic) companies , function evaluation , analytic hierarchy process (AHP) , technology