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Facility Location Selection Using Fuzzy TOPSIS: Evidence from Cheng Hua Engineering

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  • Arvin Raj Gunabalan

    (Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia.)

  • Ahmad Taufik Nursal

    (Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia.)

  • Khairunnisa Abdul Aziz

    (Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia.)

  • Adam Shariff Adli Aminuddin

    (Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, Lebuh Persiaran Tun Khalil Yaakob, 26300 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia)

  • Tisya Farida Abdul Halim

    (Fakulti Perniagaan & Komunikasi (FPK), University Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP), Kampus Uniciti Alam, Sungai Chuchuh, 02100, Padang Besar, Perlis.)

Abstract

Choosing a manufacturing site is a classic multi-criteria problem: numbers and narratives matter, and both are often uncertain. Methods that rely only on crisp inputs struggle to reflect how managers actually judge trade-offs across cost, infrastructure, regulation, and workforce. To address this, we develop a fuzzy TOPSIS decision model that accepts linguistic assessments, aggregates them across criteria, and ranks candidate locations by their closeness to an ideal solution. This study ground the model in a Malaysian case (Cheng Hua Engineering), organizing the assessment around four dimensions operational efficiency, financial considerations, regulatory/environmental compliance, and workforce/social factors. The analysis identifies Rawang as the preferred site, narrowly ahead of Tanjung Malim, and a sensitivity check confirms the ranking’s stability under different weight settings. By integrating sustainability-adjacent concerns and handling ambiguity in expert judgment, the study offers a transparent, adaptable framework that decision-makers can reuse for strategic facility location choices in similar contexts.

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  • Arvin Raj Gunabalan & Ahmad Taufik Nursal & Khairunnisa Abdul Aziz & Adam Shariff Adli Aminuddin & Tisya Farida Abdul Halim, 2025. "Facility Location Selection Using Fuzzy TOPSIS: Evidence from Cheng Hua Engineering," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(9), pages 1053-1066, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:9:y:2025:issue-9:p:1053-1066
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