Abstract:
The application of information technology in all areas represents a significant facilitation
of all business processes and activities. A competitive business system is hardly imaginable
without adequate information technology. Therefore, this paper evaluates the conditions for the
implementation of barcode technology in a warehouse system of a company for the manufacture
of brown paper. SWOT (Strengths,Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) matrix was formed with a
total of 27 elements based on which the benefits of the implementation of barcode technology in the
warehouse system need to be analysed. For this purpose, a new fuzzy PIPRECIA (PIvot Pairwise
RElative Criteria Importance Assessment) method has been developed to evaluate all elements in
SWOT matrix. In addition, a part of the new developed approach includes new fuzzy scales for
criterion assessment that are adapted to the methodology required by the fuzzy PIPRECIA method.
To determine the consistency of the method, Spearman and Pearson correlation coefficients are
applied. The results obtained in this study show that weaknesses are most noticeable in the current
system. By implementing barcode technology, it is possible to create opportunities defined in SWOT
matrix, which, in a very efficient way, allow elimination of the current weaknesses of the system.
