A comparison of classical and fuzzy project planning methods and implementation in textile sector

Today, when the competition is overwhelming on the market, businesses need to be able to work one step ahead of other businesses. Many businesses run multiple projects at the same time to gain competitive advantage. This situation makes project management effective and efficient. Generally, businesses have to set up project teams and use more human power to carry out effective project management. With the complexity of the content of the projects and the expansion of their scope, enterprises have turned to project planning techniques to facilitate project management. Together with project planning techniques, better results can be obtained from complex projects. At the same time, the costs and time required for project management can be saved. One of the other benefits of project planning techniques is to reduce the necessary human power. With this way, businesses can use human power in other departments instead of using them in project management. Researchers who have been forced to implement effective project management have developed many project planning techniques. Critical Path Method (CPM) and Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) techniques are the most important and most used of these. In this study, classical CPM, PERT and fuzzy CPM, PERT techniques were applied. The application was carried out in a carpet factory in Gaziantep Organized Industrial Zone. After all necessary steps were applied, the results were compared and the classical PERT method was determined as the ideal method for this study.