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Research Article

Improving Distributed Decision Making in Inventory Management: A Combined ABC-AHP Approach Supported by Teamwork

Table 1

Criteria for the classification of inventory items (literature review).
ReferencesMethodLead timeCriticalityDurabilitySubstitutabilityObsolescenceAvailabilityUnit costAnnual use of the dollarRotationNumber of requests/yearShortageReparabilityOrder size requirementStorage capacityDemand distributionExhaustion penalty cost
[12]Matrix of criteria      XX        
[19]Weighted sumX X   XX        
[14]AHP                
[17]Linear optimizationXX XX X  XXXXXXX
[40]AHP fuzzyX     X       X 
[31]AHP and K-meansXX     X        
[4]AHPXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX
[26]OptimizationX     XX        
[31]AHPXX    XXX     X 
[15]AHP      XXXX    X 
[41]Cluster analysisX     XX        
[42]Chebyshev theoremX     XX        
[43]Machine learningX     X     X X 
[44]Machine learningX     X     X X 
[45]Neuronal networks, multihoming algorithm      X       X