TY - JOUR ID - 73013 TI - Buying Group Design Considering the Member’s Interest JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Paydar, Mohammad Mahdi AU - Safaei, Abdulsattar AU - Safaei, Abdul Sattar AD - Industrial engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology AD - , Babol Noshirvani University of Technology AD - industrial engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 30 IS - 9 SP - 1334 EP - 1341 KW - buying group KW - Healthcare KW - reducing costs KW - members interest DO - N2 - Enhancing the speed and competition in an exhibition of services and products motivated the companies to provide high-quality products to the customers. One of the effective strategies to reach these goals is to create working groups. These groups can help the companies to improve the quality and exposure of their services along with reducing the costs. This approach is applicable in the healthcare area as well. Group buying is one of the main strategies that many healthcare institutes are trying to control the costs and quality of their products. In this study, considering the objectives of procurement costs, the distance of drugstores and the member's interest to cooperate in a purchasing group is proposed. To optimize the model objectives simultaneously, the LP-Metric goal programming approach is utilized. Finally, the case study of drug's group buying is presented to show the proposed model effectiveness. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_73013.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_73013_b30e815384ce06ccc57df5d9109b6d07.pdf ER -