Abstract
ABC analysis is a well-established categorization technique based on the Pareto Principle which dispatches all the items into three predefined and ordered classes A, B and C, in order to derive the maximum benefit for the company. In this paper, we present a new approach for the ABC Multi-Criteria Inventory Classification problem based on the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm with the Multi-Criteria Decision Making method namely VIKOR. The ABC algorithm tries to learn and optimize the criteria weights, which are then used as an input parameters by the method VIKOR. The MCDM method generates a ranking items and therefore an ABC classification. Each established classification is evaluated by an estimation function, which also represents the objective function. The results of our proposed approach were obtained from a widely used data set in the literature, and outperforms the existing classification models from the literature, by obtaining better inventory cost.