Antalya Bilim Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Logistics has become the focus of scientific approaches, increasing its importance especially in recent years. It is clear that a small improvement that can be achieved in logistics activities, which constitute a significant part of the product price, will lead to a much greater improvement in prices and this is also provides so many benefits such as decreasing product prices, increasing profitability and competitiveness. Transportation costs have an important place in logistics costs. Therefore, the optimization in transportation operations will directly affect logistics costs and finally product costs.
In this context, in the study; It is ensured to be concluded by making use of multi-criteria decision-making techniques regarding the vehicle purchasing decision that is planned to be made by a transportation company. With the help of TOPSIS and VIKOR techniques, one of the multi-criteria decision-making techniques, which provides an important decision support facility in the decisions that will be made under the influence of various criteria and where each criterion is put into equation with different weights, an optimum selection was made among seven alternatives. As a result of the analysis made with both methods, it was determined that it would be appropriate to provide the same vehicle.