Women's Cooperatives Collection Center Location Selection

Abstract

Although women's cooperatives have been taken attention in recent years they are not managed efficiently. Recently women's cooperatives mostly encountered problems while delivering their products to the end consumer. For this reason collection center planning should be done for women's cooperatives. The study seeks to determine the essential criteria for choosing a collection center location for women's cooperatives in Turkey and to highlight which criterion is more important. In line with this study it is aimed to find a solution to the problems of women cooperatives in the distribution stage by exchanging information with Tabit company which is a social initiative company and the company's goals are to meet the demands of rural residents and those based on agricultural production. In this study AHP is used to determine the most important and least important criteria for location selection of collection centers. 11 criteria are determined based on literature review and six experts are completed to AHP implementation. As a result based on the data values of the experts in the AHP method it was determined that the least important criterion was infrastructure and the most important criterion was proximity. © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.