Effective Indices in Site Selection of Furniture Industry from Point of View of Suppliers in North Khorasan Province: Application of AHP Method

Adequate conducting studies on site selection will have economic impact on performance of industrial firm; besides the effects of social، environmental، cultural and economic in their area. Also، the regional characteristics as key factors in determining where to locate the problem is that it creates incentives for public، private and cooperative sectors for investing on that place. Determining the effective indices in furniture industry to set sellers'' view is the aim of this study that conducted in North Khorasan province، Iran in 2010. After reviewing literatures and interviews، the effecting factors were identified and classified into five main groups; «materials and products»، «infrastructure»، «mortal»، «economic» and «rules and regulations». Value of weighted indices determined by getting comments from experienced furniture sellers as well as using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) applied and flexible technique by Expert Choice software. The results showed that materials، distance to market، existing invertors indices with value-weighted 0. 126، 0. 114 and 0. 099، respectively had highest priority.