LOCATION DECISION OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE AUTO MOTIVE INDUSTRY

Plant location decision as a start point to success the supply chain of firms have been received more attention today. One of the Malaysian automotive industries which intend to find a location to extend its company is considered in this study. Since, the location decision involves multiple criteria the appropriate tools must be applied to solve this issue. So, this paper applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) to select appropriate location and the selection criteria which derived from literature and interviews are considered as inputs and outputs for DEA model.