Inventory management plays a significant role in organisations' success or failure. ABC inventory classification is one of the most popular methods which are regularly applied in inventory management. Correct clustering of inventory items is an important issue of inventory management. The...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a tool for measuring the relative efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs) that perform similar tasks. One of the uses of the DEA is the establishment of benchmarks for inefficient DMUs. These benchmarks play the role of target for inefficient DMUs. However,...

The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in many fields is based on total flexibility of the weights. However, the problem of allowing total flexibility of the weights is that the values of the weights obtained by solving the unrestricted DEA program are often in contradiction to prior views...

This paper introduces a model for dealing with selecting third-party reverse logistics (3PL) providers in the presence of both dual-role factors and imprecise data. The proposed model is based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). A numerical example demonstrates the application of the proposed...