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Efficiency Analysis for Mail Centers Using Cone-Ratio DEA  

Lee, Jae-Seol (Korea Postal Logistics)
Goh, Hyun-Woo (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Seokyeong)
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Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering / v.33, no.1, 2010 , pp. 10-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
Mail centers are essential postal facilities that sort and dispatch postal items, and should be operated efficiently to provide customers high quality postal services. So the efficiency analysis of mail centers should be performed in order to induce better operation. But current performance evaluation system has 95 percent of predetermined and weighted non-quantitative indices. There is need to introduce objective efficiency measurement methodology. The main objectives of this study was to analyze the efficiency of 24 mail centers empirically using cone-ratio DEA and suggest the appropriate cone-ratio method. Consequently, this paper suggests that the cone-ratio DEA model integrating decision-maker's preferences is more desirable for efficiency analysis than that of using transformed data.
Keywords
Mail Center; Efficiency Analysis; Cone-Ratio DEA;
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