... chain management Input/output analysis A manufacturing system is an approach to produce a valuable product, relation, profit, etc., which are characterized by variables such as cost, reliability, life, appearance, etc. (Efthymiou et al., 2012). The manufacturing system is a combination...

... evaluation DEA Input/output analysis Assurance region Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric methodology for frontier estimation when the firms or decision-making units (DMUs) are producing multiple outputs by consuming multiple inputs. DEA is used to calculate the relative efficiency...

... of environmental issues that companies have faced: Input/output analysis Benchmarking Life cycle costing Social audit Accounting Pricing To be useful for environmental analysis, tools must have four attributes: 1. They must address the whole problem and provide the desired information...