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

Table 11

Application of step 5 of the methodology (multicriteria ABC classification).

Multicriteria ABC Classification (step 5)

To classify the inventory items, the values of each item for each criterion must be normalised and multiplied by their corresponding weights resulting from the AHP method. Later, the items were ordered in descending order of the weighted score and groups A, B, and C were established by the experts (see table in the supplementary material (STEP5_ABC CLASSIFICATION)).