COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS METHODS IN SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Abstract

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is an operation research framework that has been used to support decision-makers in choosing alternatives among multiple conflicting criteria. Over the past years, several MCDA methods have been developed to help decision-makers in solving multiple problems with conflicting criteria. A significant drawback of multiple MCDA methods is that they may yield conflict ranking results when applied to the same problem. This individual research aims to develop a systematic framework that can reconcile the different rankings from MCDA methods and return to the Decision Maker with a unique ranking. The new ranking method has illustrated to twelve cases studies from different areas to establish more credibility, applied explicitly to five MCDA methods, TOPSIS, VIKOR, MULTI-MOORA, ELECTRE, and WASPAS. The developed method is able to recognize a final unique ranking result between conflicting MCDA rankings. The results of the new ranking method will prove that a ranking agreed by multiple MCDA methods is more reliable than a ranking obtained by one method.