Research Article

An Uncertain QFD Approach for the Strategic Management of Logistics Services

Table 7

Prioritization of strategic actions based on benefit/cost analysis.

Strategic actions SA1SA2SA3SA4SA5

Expected importance: 0.742 1.828 3.012 3.556 1.122

Linguistic judgements on costs H L H VH L

Costs converted into uncertain variables: (0.5, 0.7) (0.3, 0.5) (0.5, 0.7) (0.7, 1) (0.3, 0.5)

Expected values of costs: 0.6 0.4 0.6 0.85 0.4

Marginal utilities: 1.237 4.570 5.020 4.184 2.805

Prioritization of strategic actions 5 2 1 3 4