Identification and prioritization of factors influencing costs of installation supply and strategies for reducing costs in Razi Hospital of Qazvin

Present paper introduces a meaningful approach to identification and prioritization of factors influencing costs of installation supply and strategies for reduction of costs in hospitals. With this purpose, using expert opinions including officials and suppliers of logistics unit of hospitals, five factors leading to increased costs of installationsupply (A1 to A5) and five ranking criteria (C1 to C5) were extracted and using the first questionnairegoods and services purchased by logistic unit were identified and sorted and the extent of expert agreements were indicated. Then through the second question of the same questionnaire factors influencing increase in costs of installation supply and the extent of expert agreements were inferred. In second questionnaire at first pair-wise comparisons were conducted between factors mentioned by consulted experts, then pair-wise comparison were conducted between ranking criteria and at last decision matrix (group matrix of factors against criteria) was determined by experts and at last after problem solving using AHP, VIKOR and TOPSIS and integrating the obtained solutions via Copeland method the factors were prioritized and the third questionnaire was distributed to experts and the result was a set of strategies for reduction of costs including time and cost saving and also reducing waiting time of the units requesting for goods and services (requesting units).