Omer faruk görçün

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Head of Faculty at Kadir Has University

Postal and logistics companies are essential subjects in the economy, providing services of the corresponding assortment for a wide range of business and private users. Service providers strive to meet the needs of users and, at the same time, make as much profit as possible. The efficiency of each of the subsystems in companies from this area sign...

Tour operator selection is critical for ensuring high-quality services, customer satisfaction, and sustainable tourism development. However, traditional decision-making methods often fail to address the complexities and uncertainties involved in this process. This study introduces a robust decision-making framework that integrates quantum picture f...

In line with the 2050 net zero emission target, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is recognized as one of the most effective decarbonization solutions for the aviation industry, which has been identified among the critical areas for mitigating climate change. However, although sustainability issues and decarbonization have attracted scholars’ attenti...

In the sustainability concept, one of the most important areas is sustainable waste management, a system that significantly impacts both economic and social well-being. The aim of this paper is to create a unique model that can contribute to better and more promising waste management in local governments in order to increase the level of sustainabi...

E-trade platforms are software applications that enable businesses to conduct online sales and manage their digital storefronts. These platforms provide a range of tools and features to facilitate the creation, operation, and management of an online business. This study comprehensively evaluates e-trade platforms within the automotive spare parts i...

Project logistics consists of operational processes that require attention, especially involving the transportation of heavy and sensitive loads. Trailer selection is a critical factor for the successful completion of projects, as trailers play a fundamental role in the safe and efficient transportation of loads. The characteristics of the cargo to...

Choosing the proper and best crawler crane is a complicated decision-making issue due to several conflicting criteria and vagueness in the construction and project logistics industries. This decision-making problem has become compounded due to insufficient studies on crawler crane selection in the relevant literature. The current study introduces a...

This study proposes a multi-criteria group decision-making framework through a dual hesitant linguistic rung orthopair fuzzy (DHLq-ROF) set to manage uncertainties more effectively and make a theoretical contribution to the academic literature. For ranking, the score function and accuracy function are defined. Additionally, some novel operational l...

According to reports from international bodies such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations, transportation is one of the leading contributors to environmental pollution and climate change. Electric vehicles present a practical solution to reducing emissions, particularly for industrial users. However, industrial users’ selection of...

In Turkey, the transportation industry's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased by 147.1% between 1990 and 2019. Today, this transportation industry (i.e., freight and passenger) is among the significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in Turkey's megacities. Moreover, 65.43% of short-distance trips between home to work and home to schoo...

Deep learning (DL) is one of the most promising technological developments emerging in the fourth industrial revolution era for businesses to improve processes, increase efficiency, and reduce errors. Accordingly, hierarchical learning software selection is one of the most critical decision-making problems in integrating neural network applications...

The current paper proposes a methodological frame to identify the best Industry 4.0 (I4) strategy for the automotive manufacturing industry as a roadmap for companies to make a more straightforward digital transformation. We noticed a critical research gap when we performed an extensive literature review. Although there are many studies available t...

The freight transport industry is one of the primary sectors responsible for excessive energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Restructuring international and domestic freight transport chains based on sustainability and green transportation is critical for practitioners and policymakers to reduce pressure on the logistics and transportati...

The selection of warehouse locations for humanitarian organizations represents a critical and strategic decision-making process. It is inherently complex, influenced by uncertainties and conflicting criteria. This study presents an integrated decision-making framework tailored to address this complexity for humanitarian organizations. The framework...

Modern technologies provide new opportunities for the industry but raise the expectations of the customers as well. This is valid also for the postal, courier, and logistics industries. The biggest challenge for the companies in the field is to improve the efficiency of the final phase in the transfer of shipments – last-mile delivery. A contempora...

Three-dimensional printers (3DPs), as critical parts of additive manufacturing (AM), are state-of-the-art technologies that can help practitioners with digital transformation in production processes. Three-dimensional printer performance mostly depends on good integration with artificial intelligence (AI) to outperform humans in overcoming complex...

Automotive businesses often delegate logistical tasks to third-party logistics (3PLs) service providers to acquire a competitive edge in the dynamic market. Nevertheless, selecting the most suitable third-party logistics (3PL) partner is a multifaceted undertaking that needs careful evaluation of several criteria and alternatives. This research aim...

The increasing frequency of wildfires has posed significant challenges to communities worldwide. The effectiveness of all aspects of disaster management depends on a credible estimation of the prevailing risk. Risk, the product of a hazard’s likelihood and its potential consequences, encompasses the probability of hazard occurrence, the exposure of...

In this era of increasing demand for mobility and rapid urban growth, there is a pressing need for a public transit system that is safe, fast, reliable, well-connected, and sustainable. Furthermore, it is essential to reduce the external costs associated with urban transportation, including environmental pollution, noise, congestion, and accidents,...

Due to increases in world population, rapid urbanization, increasing environmental pollution, and poorly managed food supply chains (FSCs), supplying clean and reliable agri-food has become more critical. Furthermore, increasing concerns of the urban population on healthy and balanced nutrition have increased their demand for fresh foods (FFs). Als...

The high-speed train (HST) system is one of the most critical components of national and international passenger transportation networks. Selecting the appropriate train sets is a critical task for railway operators to build an efficient, productive, safe, inexpensive and environmentally friendly passenger transport network system. On the other han...

This work tries to discuss and evaluate the advantages and superiorities of the extended Efficiency Analysis Technique with Input and Output Satisficing (EATWIOS) method based on Type-2 Neutrosophic Fuzzy Numbers (T2NFNs). The suggested model is maximally stable and robust by considering sensitivity analysis results which demonstrates a new perform...

The current study examines the state-of-the-art literature on using MCDM frames to solve various evaluation problems faced in the health industry. As is known, the health industry has a highly complicated and dynamic structure. Moreover, the requirement to use advanced technology in almost all phases of the treatment process makes it challenging to...

Almost all megacities worldwide are under pressure from environmental pollution and excessive resource usage due to rapid urbanization and increasing urban population. Within this scope, micro-mobility solutions (MMSs), an extension to the primary urban transportation network, have become even more critical recently. However, when we executed a pre...

According to the common opinion in the literature, the sustainability of container ports is a tremendously complex topic owing to the maritime sector's excessively dynamic form and many highly complex, predictable and unpredictable uncertainties in this industry. The current paper proposes two powerful, practical, inspiring approaches to fill these...

Logistics is a sophisticated system involving third-party logistics (3PL) providers, freight for-warders, warehousing companies, and transport service producers in various transport modes, such as road, rail, air, maritime, and multimodal transportation. Furthermore, it is possible to add customs clearance agencies, insurance companies, banks, and...

Statistics on occupational accidents published by international organizations show that mobile cranes are the riskiest heavy equipment among all crane types. The most significant reason for these crane accidents is the decision-makers' wrong selection of mobile cranes. Making misevaluations and selecting improper mobile cranes can cause many proble...

Turret trucks used for special warehousing operations have exceptional abilities, qualifications, and working principles than other warehousing handling equipment. Also, at the same time, if decision-makers cannot select as proper to needs, the cost of being idle of these kinds of machines is very high. According to the comprehensive literature rev...

The automotive industry is one of the most competitive sectors, and it requires a well-structured logistics system to meet the industry' vital requirements such as just-in-time, lean and agile supply chain operations, productivity and sustainability. Well-located and well-designed warehouses can make reaching these aims for the automotive industry...

The second-hand vessel market has quite different dynamics than the market of the new-building vessel, and highly complicated and conflicting criteria and many uncertainties affect the ship selection process. Therefore, it is required to use a robust mathematical model to solve these kinds of decision-making problems. For this purpose, this paper p...

Cities are the urban areas that are most strongly affected by externalities of energy usage. The energy requirements of individuals who live in urban areas are based on their various needs for heating, cooling, transportation, cooking, and so on. For this purpose, inhabitants of cities use various types of energy resources, such as coal, natural ga...

The selection of a proper international freight transport route is one of the crucial tasks for decision-makers since it can affect costs, efficiency, and transportation performance. Besides, the selection of suitable and appropriate freight routes can also reduce external costs of transportation such as emissions, noise, traffic congestions, accid...

In recent years, there have been dramatic changes in manufacturing systems in many industries depending on technological developments. Robotics is one of the essential components of these changes. Today, the usage of robotics in manufacturing processes has become widespread in almost all industries. Also, it has become a very strong desire ever-inc...

Purpose – Pharmaceutical supply chains (PSCs) need a well-operating and faultless logistics system to successfully store and distribute their medicines. Hospitals, health institutes, and pharmacies must maintain extra stock to respond requirements of the patients. Nevertheless, there is an inverse correlation between the level of medicine stock and...

Purpose- The present study aims to provide a practical and robust assessment technique for assessing countries' investability in global supply chains to practitioners. Thus, the proposed approach can help decision-makers evaluate and select appropriate countries in the expansion process of the global supply chains and reduce risks concerning countr...

Measuring the performances of the urban transport systems is a critical issue in improving and developing the existing transport systems. In the meantime, making performance analysis for the public transport system is not easy for practitioners and decision-makers, as there are many conflicting criteria and very complicated situations in the evalua...

Shipping companies may not present appropriate and reasonable shipping charges to their customers due to the high investment costs of chemical tanker vessels. Hence, the second-hand chemical tanker vessel selection may present many advantages and opportunities to the shipping companies. However, selecting a suitable chemical tanker represents a com...

Contrary to expectations, based on occurring changes in customer behaviours related to consuming and shopping triggered by the pandemic, the global container shipping market has continued to grow during COVID 19. Experts estimate that these increases will continue in the future due to changing consumption habits. However, container shipping compani...

Recent challenges such as COVID 19 and the blockage of the Suez Channel have shown that the global supply chains (GSC) have extremely fragile structures. Hence, the GSCs have started to seek new strategies to be less affected. From this perspective, regionalization of the GSCs may be the best and most practical way to create more strength, well-ope...

Purpose The present paper proposes a framework for zero-defect manufacturing in Indian industries. Due to the current competitive market, there is a strong need to achieve zero defects from the customer's perspective. A survey questionnaire is analyzed based on the responses and a structured framework is drafted to implement zero defect manufacturi...

Reducing transportation costs is one of today's global supply chains' essential tasks. For this purpose, as the crucial players of the worldwide supply chains, the international container shipping companies try to find optimal ways to reduce the shipping costs. Unnecessary transhipment and displacement operations are the leading causes of high logi...

The current paper aims to fill the two severe and significant gaps in the literature related to global retail chains. First, it presents the criteria set identified by performing comprehensive fieldwork together with experts highly experienced and have extensive knowledge of the retailing industry and a detailed literature review. Secondly, it prop...

Liman seçimi denizcilik işletmelerinin yanı sıra, tedarik zincirlerinin performansı açısından son derece önemli kararlardan birisidir. Ancak liman alternatiflerinin değerlendirilebilmesi için her zaman net veri mevcut olmayabilir ve karar vericiler eksik bilgiler ile belirsizlik ortamında karar vermek zorunda kalabilir. Bu kapsamda mevcut çalışmada...

The autonomous robots are required in our logistics operations? It is one of the crucial questions that asked to him by logistics managers. Depending on technological developments, some requirements, which can be defined as speed, lower cost, and high quality, have become more important to stay in a highly competitive environment for companies and...

This book provides a detailed theoretical background of Logistics 4.0 using real-world examples and case studies and proposes a methodological framework to understand the technological revolutions happening in the present day from the perspective of logistics management. With the fourth industrial revolution, new technologies, such as artificial in...

Positioning in the right location for organizing logistics activities is a determinative factor in the aspect of costs, effectivity, productivity, and performance of these operations carried out by logistics firms. The proper logistics village selection is a crucial, complicated, and time-consuming process for decision-makers who have to make the r...

Purpose: This study examines the potential of production systems of the heavy industry branches with the help of cyber-physical systems. Sources of public and private sectors may not be sufficient to transform and develop all heavy industry branches simultaneously. Because of that, policymakers can determine priority industries for development and...

The selection of a proper international freight transport route is one of the crucial tasks for decision-makers since it can affect costs, efficiency, and transportation performance. Besides, the selection of suitable and appropriate freight routes can also reduce external costs of transportation such as emissions, noise, traffic congestions, accid...

Crimes can affect the social welfare, economy, safety, and security of all stakeholders, such as governments, local authorities, institutions, and citizens. Hence, a countries' performance concerning the fight against crime is an essential issue and has mutual effects on the countries' prestige. However, performance analysis for the crime situation...

This paper investigates medical device selection problem in healthcare organizations. As compared to numerous research works on supplier/equipment selection problems in diverse areas of applications, surprisingly, the number of works is less in case of the healthcare industry. In this paper, as a case study, we consider MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imag...

Petroleum products transportation considered as one of the crucial parts of dangerous material transportation is a risky logistics activity. The selection of the appropriate tanker vehicles may be a suitable solution to reduce the risks and increase the efficiency and performance of the fuel transportation companies. However, the selection of a sui...

Selection of the appropriate Roll-on Roll-off (Ro-Ro) port is one of the crucial tasks for the maritime industry. Because there are many factors affecting the selection process, this selection process is essentially a multi-criteria decision-making problem. This paper proposes a integrated approach consisting of the CRITIC (Criteria Importance Thro...

This paper presents a novel integrated multi-criteria decision-making model consists of the CRITIC (CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) technique and the EDAS (The Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution) method to evaluate the selection of the urban rail vehicles operated in the public transport systems. In order to d...

It is a fact accepted by everybody that football is the most popular sport around the world. The result of a derby match may be very important for millions of people. Even the time seems to stop on a match day for so many people. Show and entertainment are the most important aspects of football. If soccer players have a high performance, a match ma...

The current paper carries out an examination about the selection of the proper container seaport, which in the Black sea region. This paper focuses on a research question. Is it possible to apply multi-criteria decision-making methods that can be applied more easily than the DEA technique for decision-makers? In order to determine the best performa...

Selection of proper fuel supplier is extremely important for companies that carry out transportation activities and it can be evaluated as a critical decision to obtain competitive advantages in the transportation market. A structural and systematic frame is suggested in this paper in order to solve the decision problems for fuel supplier selection...

Karadeniz Bölgesi küresel ticaret için son derece önemli bir bölgedir. Kısa mesafe deniz taşımacılığı ile deniz otobanları yaklaşımlarının Avrupa Birliğinin gündeminde olması Karadeniz limanlarının önemini her geçen gün artırmaktadır. Dolayısıyla Karadeniz limanlarının performansları yakın gelecekte gösterecekleri gelişme ve ilerlemelere büyük ölçü...

Uluslararası taşımacılık işletmelerinin doğru araç seçimi operasyonel verimlilik ve etkinlik açısından son derece önemli bir konudur. Taşımacılık faaliyetlerinin etkinliği uygun araç ve ekipman seçimine büyük ölçüde bağımlılık göstermektedir. Öte yandan araç seçimi karar alıcıların sezgileri ve kişisel yargıları ile yapılamayacak kadar çok sayıda f...

Bu çalışmada İstanbul kenti özelinde kentin iki en uzak noktası olan Silivri ve Sabiha Gökçen Havalimanları arasında ulaşım olanaklarını ve tercih edilecek ulaşım alternatiflerinin kullanıcılar tarafından seçilmesine etki eden faktörleri analiz etmeyi hedeflenmektedir. Bu sayede en optimal ulaşım olanakları belirlenerek bu alternatiflerin geliştiri...

Taşımacılık işletmelerinin ve operatörlerin farklı tür, marka ve özelliklere sahip treylerler arasında en uygun ve en iyi treyleri seçebilmek için sarf ettikleri çaba her geçen gün artmaktadır. Genel bir perspektifte değerlendirildiğinde, standart treylerler seçimi çok sayıda faktörün etki ettiği son derece karmaşık bir süreçtir. Treyler seçim süre...

Bağımsızlıklarını elde ettiklerinden beri, Avrupa ve Asya arasında önemli bir geçiş güzergâhı olan Orta Asya Türk Cumhuriyetlerinin küresel ticaretin yanı sıra, uluslararası taşımacılık ve lojistik operasyonlar açısından önemleri giderek artmaktadırlar. Bu ülkeler geçiş ülkeleri olmalarına ek olarak, lojistik ve ulaştırma alanında yaptıkları yatırı...

Ağır ve havaleli yüklerin taşınması süreçlerini de kapsayan proje lojistiği son derece hassas operasyonlardan oluşan lojistik bir faaliyettir. Kriterlerin ve karar noktalarının çok sayıda olması treyler seçimini son derece zorlaştırmaktadır. Seçime ilişkin süreçler etki eden faktörlerin ve değişkenlerin çok sayıda olması treyler seçimine ilişkin sü...

Günümüzde robotlar hayatın hemen her alanında insanların yaptıkları işleri yapmaya başladılar. Üretim sahalarında son derece spesifik iş parçacıklarını yerine getirirken, dünya üzerinde gerçekleştirilen ameliyatların giderek artan bir bölümünü robotlar üstlenmektedir. Bunun yanı sıra robotlar fiziksel olarak insan formunda olsun olmasın günlük yaşa...

Taşımacılık sektörünün önemi hem Dünya’da hem de Türkiye’de her geçen gün artmaktadır. Küreselleşmenin etkisiyle müşterilerin ürünleri daha hızlı ve eksiksiz bir biçimde talep etmelerine paralel olarak, işletmelerin ve tedarik zincirlerinin de rekabet edebilmek için sahip oldukları lojistik hızları ve operasyonel mükemmeliyeti artırmaları zorunlu h...

Project logistics is one of the specific logistics operations. Compared to other logistics operations, it needs more efficient planning and engineering applications in each operational process. On the other hand, each project logistics operation can be defined as tailor-made operations, since it has no similarity with other operations. Consequently...

Energy cost is a phenomenon relating to logistics and transportation activities of logistics operators, as well as governments, local authorities and citizens. Actually, all the logistics parties may be affected by energy costs. At the same time, logistics and transportation flow rate is declining continuously. Increases in traffic volume and decre...

We analyzed the urban logistics problems in Istanbul City, and we tried to show the solutions of these problems thanks to intermodal freight terminals. Istanbul is a center of trade, tourism, and industry; 60 % of total logistics activities take place in Istanbul. At the same time, capacities, infrastructures, and performance of logistics system ar...

Formal Safety Assessment is a very important tool for the establishment of safety systems according to marine safety. FSA methodology has been recommended to all the maritime actors by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as an integrated safety system. In Formal Safety Assessment two main risk methodologies are applied, which are quantita...

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