Türkiye ile Avrupa Birliği Ülkelerinin Lojistik Performanslarının Entropi Ağırlıklı Edas Yöntemiyle Karşılaştırılması

Abstract

In order to compare the countries' logistic operations, the World Bank developed the logistic performance index (LPI). Data for this index are published every two years. This study aims to compare Turkey’s logistic performance with the European Union states by using the LPI of the year 2018 with ENTROPY weighted EDAS method. In this respect, firstly, the importance degree (weights)of the criteria to be used when comparing countries was determined with ENTROPY method. Afterwards, the ranking of the countries according to their logistic performance was made with EDAS method by using criteria weights as determined Furthermore, the rankings of the countries were compared with the logistics performance index. In this study, as a result of the analysis made by ENTROPI method, the ranking of the criteria according to the importance degree is customs, infrastructure, logistics competence, freight tracking and traceability, timing and international shipments. Therefore, the most important criteria for comparing the logistic performance of the countries was found to be customs. As a result of the analyzes performed by EDAS method using criteria weights determined by ENTROPY method, the logistics performance rankings of the countries respectively are Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom, Finland, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Czechia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Croatia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Malta and Latvia. When the sequence obtained from the results of the analysis carried out with EDAS method compared logistics performance index rank in the sample, five countries (Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Lithuania and Turkey) increased their rank, six countries (Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Slovakia) lower their rank and 19 countries (Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Czechia, Poland, Ireland, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Malta and Latvia) maintained their order. While Turkey’s rank was 23 According to the logistics performance index in the sample, as a result of the analysis has increased to 22nd place.