Draft to Implement a Logistics Information System for Corporate Management Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods

This manuscript is focused on describing and analyzing certain logistics processes and activities in a chosen light manufacture, warehouse and distribution enterprise, and subsequently a proposal for implementing a suitable logistics information system for corporate management providing interconnection among all the logistics activities of such an enterprise. The first two chapters outline the basic concepts related to the issue of logistics processes, electronic information systems as well as a brief description of the analyzed enterprise. The following chapters consist of the most important parts of this research study. An advanced logistics information system is specified and thereafter implemented on the basis of a predefined set of criteria and by implementing certain opted methods included into the Operations Research, particularly the multi-criteria decision making problems. Specifically, the Scoring Method is utilized, and subsequently the results obtained are compared using the Saaty quantitative pairwise comparison method.