Application of ANP in production line selection A case study for ERP sand table simulation evaluation

Production line selection is evaluated as a critical factor in enterprise resource planning (ERP). With the scope of this paper, production line selection was considered as a multi-criteria decision problem and a model aiming the usage of analytic network process (ANP) was developed to evaluate the criteria and alternatives in a feedback system. The criteria were included into the model to rate benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR). Final synthesis of alternatives was obtained by using rated BOCR. The proposed approach can be adopted as an evaluation tool by decision-makers in systems which include feedback and dependence.