Sewing Machine Selection for a Textile Workshop by Using EDAS Method

Abstract

Managers in businesses often face with multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in their daily work lives. Particularly, managers who work in the procurement department often face with MCDM problems while purchasing machine, material and equipment. Especially, the purchase of a high-tech machine is an important decisionmaking problem, and the purchase of such machines is a significant cost item for businesses. Therefore, the criteria to be taken into account before purchasing should be analysed in a good way and machine alternatives should be evaluated with MCDM methods with regard to these criteria. Many articles in the literature have used MCDM methods to solve the machine selection problem. In this study, EDAS (Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution), a new MCDM method, was used as an alternative to these methods. The aim of using this method is to be wanted to contribute to Turkish literature as there is no related article about this method in Turkish literature. In the application of the method, sewing machine was selected for a textile workshop.