MULTI-CRITERIA SELECTION DECISION FOR THE OPTIMAL LOCATION OF THECONCRETE BATCH PLANT - A COMPARISON STUDY OF APPLYING ANP AND AHP

Abstract

The selection of optimum location for concrete batch plant (CBP) became very important problemthat needs aright decision to avoid many difficulties and problems may results due to select wrong location. For that we canuse the analytic network process (ANP) in decision making process. The ANP is more generalized thantheanalytic hierarchy process (AHP). This paper shows a form of questionnaire to identifying the factors affecting CBP location to deal with it or toconstruct a new batch plant after sending it to expert engineers and workers. By applying SUPERDECISION software the ANP model presents the framework criteria and availablealternatives ad feedback which can help to choose the best alternative. The difference between these two methods papers in this paper by modeling the problem and determine thefinal priorities for the alternatives and the importance of each criteria by evaluating process. This paper gives abrief look at the difference of AHP and ANP.