Abstract:
Supply chain management (SCM) is one of the most important of the areas that have recently generated a great deal of interest in both industry and academia. SCM is considered an integrating philosophy to manage the total flows of materials, products and information from suppliers to the ultimate customers. The changing conditions of competition, for organizations to become more responsive and also more efficient are driving the interest in the concept of supply chain agility and leanness. The main objective of this paper is to suggest an index to reflect the agility and leanness of companies and corresponding SCs in the industry. The purpose of this paper, providing an index using two paradigms, Lean supply chain and Agile supply chain, to evaluate the Company's performance. Therefore, company to review its supply chain list, a series of criteria that are discussed in paradigm, and weighted those uses AHP method. The company evaluated its performance using a standardized questionnaire designed.
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Table 1: Lean Supply Chain Indicators Researchers Lean Supply Chain Indicators Treville and Antonakis (2006) Respect for People Anand and Kodali (2008) Customer Relationship Demeter and Matyusz (2011) Total quality management - timely production - Maintenance Gurumurthy and Kodali (2009) Timely production - relations with suppliers / long-term relationships in business Stewart and Grout (2001) Correction of mistakes Table 2: Agile Supply Chain Indicators Researchers Agile Supply Chain Indicators Lin, Chiu and Chu (2006) Cooperation of chain partners - Process integration - Integration of information - the sensitivity of the market - customer sensitivity Agarwal, Shankar and Tiwari, 2007 The sensitivity of the market - customer satisfaction - quality - speed of delivery - data accuracy - New Product Introduction - centralized and cooperative planning - integration of process - using information technology - reducing production-time - improving service levels - Minimize costs - minimize uncertainty - to minimize resistance to change - trust development Swafford, Ghosh and Murthy (2008) Using information technology - the ability to understand and respond to changes - quickly improve customer service - reduce product cycle time - rapidly increasing new product introduction Kisperska-Moron and Swierczek (2009) The sensitivity of the market - virtual organization - process and network integration Khan, Bakkappa and Sahary (2009) The proper response to market volatility - rapidly respond to the unique needs of customers Yusuf, Gunasekaran, Musa, Dauda, El-Berishy and Cang (2014) Enriching customer - leverage effect of people and information - Cooperation for competition - understanding change and uncertainty Table 3: Summary of Research etal.