A Study on the Synthetic Evaluation Model of Third-Party Pharmaceutical Logistics Companies

Author

Xiao, Su

Author_Institution

Bus. Sch., Hohai Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

33

Abstract

Pharmaceutical logistics has its special requirements which is different from common goods logistics. How to synthetically evaluate and fairly select third party pharmaceutical logistics company (3PPLC) is very important in the bidding procedure of large regional congregate medicine purchases. This paper setup an integrated evaluation index system to 3PPLC based on a questionnaire investigation. The comprehensive weight of every evaluation index is calculated by AHP and entropy weight. Then the optimal selection rank of several 3PPLCs is given by a numerical example analysis based on these comprehensive index weights and TOPSIS method.

Keywords

decision making; entropy; logistics; medicine; numerical analysis; pharmaceutical industry; purchasing; 3PPLC; AHP; TOPSIS method; bidding procedure; comprehensive index weights; entropy weight; integrated evaluation index system; numerical example analysis; optimal selection rank; regional congregate medicine purchases; synthetic evaluation model; third-party pharmaceutical logistics company; Decision making; Entropy; Indexes; Logistics; Pharmaceuticals; Reliability; AHP; Pharmaceutical logistic company; TOPSIS; entropy method; evaluation index system; evaluationmodel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Business Computing and Global Informatization (BCGIN), 2012 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4469-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCGIN.2012.15

Filename

6382456