TY - JOUR AU - Chama, Chama AU - Harding, Kevin AU - Mulopo, Jean AU - Chego, Paul PY - 2021/11/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS APPROACH TO PALLET SELECTION: DEVELOPMENT OF A MATERIAL-OF-CONSTRUCTION EVALUATION MODEL JF - The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering JA - S AFR J IND ENG VL - 32 IS - 3 SE - Special Edition DO - 10.7166/32-3-2614 UR - http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/2614 SP - 52-64 AB - <p>Although pallets have traditionally been constructed from wood, there has been a shift towards making them from plastic and other composite materials. Subsequently, the storage and transportation industry has been inundated with questions about ‘the best’ pallet material type in relation to a supply chain. In addition, in a rapidly changing global manufacturing and storage environment, industry players have difficulty justifying the high capital cost of adopting new state-of-the-art pallets. This paper seeks to build a model to identify the best pallet material-of-construction (MOC) as perceived by the end consumer. The approach used for this was based on different stages of building an assistive multi-criteria decision model. This included modelling the decision framework using the analytic hierarchy process and undertaking an independent case study as the baseline for the modelling.</p> ER -