Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.911
Luis G. Vargas
The International Center for Conflict Resolution (IC4CR) won a $30,000 grant award, given by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR), to develop a method to estimate the harms and benefits that gun policy and violence prevention interventions have on legal users of firearms.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.845
Swapnil Sawant, A. Sarode
The Indian manufacturing industry is growing rapidly, and supply chain management (SCM) plays the most important role in the industry. In SCM, customer satisfaction in terms of quantity, quality and on time delivery is the most important critical factor. To satisfy this requirement, the best third-party logistics (3PL) service provider is required. Therefore, the selection of the best third-party logistics provider is one of the basic requirements in SCM. Logistics services are the backbone of an economy, providing the efficient, cost effective flow of goods and services on which other commercial sectors depend. The logistics companies work as the outsourced or third-party service providers and support the organization's logistics functions. In this study, we identified some important criteria for 3PL implementation in SCM in Indian manufacturing industries. With the help of this study, supply chain managers from small to medium sized manufacturing industries can simplify the selection process for 3PL vendors. This study will help in the selection of the best vendor from such a competitive group and provide justification for the selection.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.896
C. Garuti
The concept of AI is a relatively new concept that is being used with increasing frequency. The importance of this concept has to do in general with the increased capacity of what we understand as intelligence. However, it is a delicate concept and easy to misuse and / or misinterpret. This requires a good understanding of what AI is, what it is based on or should be based on and its forms of practical operation. I would like to make a point regarding the difference between IA and IAE. AI in general is thought of as a program or machine capable of answering difficult questions by generating relationships related to the question within large relational databases. This, in general, leads to obtaining results about which it is not clear how they were obtained (what was the "reasoning" behind). This, in the long term, can bring important problems of understanding and dependency. Ultimately, we would be obeying a machine based on its eventual high predictive capacity. But, in this case, who is really the decision-maker and who is the operator?
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.862
J. Raco, J. Krejci, Johanis Ohoitimur, Y. Raton, Angelia Melani Adrian, R. Rottie, Jeanette Soputan, Stevanus Ngenget, Loureine P. Sumual, Erick Sumakud
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the development of a country's economy by providing employment and using local resources; they also have the ability to quickly adapt to external and internal changes and technological developments due to their flexible nature. The development of SMEs continues to be encouraged, but there are many complex factors that impact their development, primarily focused on the lack of resources. This study seeks to determine priority sectors for developing SMEs and business units that offer the greatest potential opportunities. This study uses the AHP method, which is widely used in Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). Out of the five criteria analyzed, human resources was the priority factor (28.1%) that must become the main focus for Yamaru enterprise. The results of this study can be adopted by other SMEs.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.863
Arpan Garg, Y. Sharma, Subi Jain
COVID-19 is causing a large number of causalities and producing tedious healthcare management problems at a global level. During a pandemic, resource availability and optimal distribution of the resources may save lives. Due to this issue, the authors have proposed an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) based optimal distribution model. The proposed distribution model advances the AHP and enhances real-time model applicability by eliminating judgmental scale errors. The model development is systematically discussed. Also, the proposed model is utilized as a state-level optimal COVID-19 vaccine distribution model with limited vaccine availability. The COVID-19 vaccine distribution model used 28 Indian states and 7 union territories as the decision elements for the vaccination problem. The state-wise preference weights were calculated using the geometric mean AHP analysis method. The optimal state-level distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine was obtained using preference weights, vaccine availability and the fact that a patient requires exactly vaccine doses to complete a vaccination schedule. The optimal COVID-19 vaccine distribution along with state and union territory rank, and preference weights were compiled. The obtained results found Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, and West Bengal to be the most COVID-19 affected states. In the future, the authors suggest using the proposed model to design an optimal vaccine distribution strategy at the district or country level, and to design a vaccine storage/inventory model to ensure optimal use of a vaccine storage center covering nearby territories.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.908
Enrique Mu
Our beloved IJAHP editorial board member and associate editor Dr. Birsen Karpak has announced her retirement from the institution where she has worked for the past 36 years...
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.909
Luis G. Vargas, A. Guiora, Marcel C. Minutolo
Balancing public good with individual rights is a difficult task; gun policies attempt to do just this. To ensure public safety, local, state, and federal agencies piece together policies that each entity believes will meet the needs of public welfare. When legislating new gun policies, the impact the policies have on gun owners are perceived as a zero-sum game; some groups are perceived to gain while others think they are losing, but the reality is much more nuanced. The reason the impact of these policies on all lawful gun owners has been considered a zero-sum game is largely because to date there has been no research measuring the impact. Further, there have been no attempts to quantify the impact that the policies have on lawful gun owners. The sole argument that has been made is about constitutionality. In this paper, we develop an approach based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The approach allows us to develop criteria for evaluating the impact of these policies on lawful gun owners and generate priorities for the criteria from pairwise comparisons. Criteria are compared in pairs, thus the term pairwise comparisons. This allows us to score, as with a scorecard model, gun policies for various types of gun owners with respect to the criteria according to the Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks, thereby determining the impact of each policy.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.13033/ijahp.v13i2.871
Johanis Ohoitimur, J. Krejci, J. Raco, Y. Raton, Anselmus Jamlean, Ignasius Welerubun, R. Tanod
Strategic priorities are commonly implemented by both profit and non-profit institutions, but rarely employed by religious congregations. The congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC), an institution in the Catholic Church, has undertaken an empirical study, using a combination of SWOT and fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodologies. Four strategies were employed. First, the strategy S-O (30.1%), aimed at intensifying and improving our human resources in order to enrich the lives of all our members. Second, we adopted the strategy S-T (25.8%) that focused on our Sacred Heart Spirituality to empower the fraternal community. Third, we adopted the strategy W-T (24.1%) that aimed at strengthening the Sacred Heart Spirituality throughout the entire MSC family. Finally, we used the strategy W-O (20.1%) in order to strengthen networking in the congregation while also revitalizing family ministry. A sensitivity analysis confirmed the SO alternative as the main strategy. Internally, the congregation is quite strong but more needs to be done to deepen the Sacred Heart Spirituality among all our members. The researchers recommend conducting further study of the congregation about how they perceive the MSC pastoral ministry and understand the vision.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-19DOI: 10.13033/IJAHP.V13I1.866
A. Petrillo
Digital Effect: Visions of business and Industry 5.0 is a new book on digitization and innovation and the importance of applying decision making models.
《数字效应:商业和工业愿景5.0》是一本关于数字化和创新以及应用决策模型重要性的新书。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-19DOI: 10.13033/IJAHP.V13I1.813
M. Azizi, Hamzehali Mansouri
This study was carried out because of the lack of research on strategic planning in Iran's home furniture market. Accordingly, in this study, we developed a decision-making model to select the best solution for strategic planning in the industry. After determining the strategic criteria or factors affecting the developed model, the control criteria of four merits or subsets of competencies were identified. To determine all the effective factors in the model, the sub-criteria of four control criteria and their connections were identified. The following four possibilities were considered as potential solutions: entrance to a foreign market (S1), increase portfolio (S2), emphasis on scientific management of mixing elements of marketing (S3), and generate research and development units (S4). The Analytic Network Process (ANP) and the Super Decisions software were used to synthesize and analyze the model. It was found that all calculated decisions were influenced by the strategic criteria. A value-weighted competency model was calculated in the first stage with the influence of strategic criteria on the competency model. Hierarchical design decisions were made for each of the competencies and their subsets (144 sub-criteria and 22 middle indices). Paired comparison matrices associated with the degree of the importance of each of the competencies were achieved in the second stage. In the final stage, subsets of the competency weights and their sub-options were identified with the combination of the competencies and the best solution was obtained.
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