Identifying and Ranking the Factors Affecting the Creation of Stagnant Items in the Warehouse and Strategies to Reduce it Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (Case Study: Parsian Gas Refining Company)

The existence of a warehouse with a coded and regular storage system with the aim of providing parts to support production operations is inevitable. In this article, our goal is to identify and rank the factors affecting the creation of stagnant items in storage and ways to reduce it in Parsian Gas Refinery. Therefore, in order to design the framework and extract the research questions, after studying the warehousing literature, interviews have been conducted with the company's experts and using the opinions of experts, the possible causes and factors that are considered as influential factors in creating stagnant items in the warehouse are identified and Will be examined. Then, using the Delphi method questionnaire, the opinions of experts and experienced experts, the factors affecting the creation of stagnant items in the warehouse and solutions to reduce it in Parsian Gas Refinery are identified and using the AHP method, the proposed solutions are prioritized. Finally, based on the results of the research, some suggestions are presented in order to effectively deal with the identified factors.