Abstract

Logistics facility location of supply chain (SC) is one of the important strategic problems in terms of systematic design of SC. Based on the needs of China’s companies supply chain management (SCM), this paper aims at the defect of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) location approach, and makes supplement and improvement based on it, in consideration of practical application. It brings in the concept of triangular fuzzy number, proposes evaluation location approach in logistics network facilities of SC based on triangular fuzzy number, and introduces a new method, triangular fuzzy number comparison. The procedure of facility location is easy to program, spread and apply. Finally, the feasibility of such location approach is elaborated based on the application of constructing the evaluation index system of location and the location process of a certain group corporation’s distribution center in China.

Key words: Logistics network, strategic facility location, triangular fuzzy number, evaluation.