168 Int. J. Procurement Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2014 Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Selecting alternatives for improvement in IT enabled supply chain performance Mohit Tyagi*, Pradeep Kumar and Dinesh Kumar MIED, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttrakhand, 247667, India E-mail: mohitmied@gmail.com E-mail: kumarfme@iitr.ernet.in E-mail: dinesfme@iitr.ernet.in *Corresponding author Abstract: In the present scenario, information technology (IT) is the most important concern for the existence of a company in the competitive market. This paper provides an approach to determine the impact of various alternatives on the performance of IT enabled supply chain. In order to evaluate the alternatives namely (top management support, IT advancement, and Supply chain integration) on the behalf of performance improvement in IT enabled supply chain, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based model is proposed. It provides the decision methodology to give a ranking order of these alternatives, to improve the supply chain performance. The finding suggests that among the above three alternatives, top management support can play a very important role in improving performance of the supply chain. Keywords: supply chain management; SCM; information technology; IT; supply chain integration; SCI; analytic hierarchy process; AHP. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Tyagi, M., Kumar, P. and Kumar, D. (2014) ‘Selecting alternatives for improvement in IT enabled supply chain performance’, Int. J. Procurement Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.168–182. Biographical notes: Mohit Tyagi is a Research scholar in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, India. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India in 2008 and Masters in Mechanical Engineering with specialisation in Product Design and Development from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India in 2010. His area of research is supply chain management. Pradeep Kumar is a Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee, India. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering in 1982 from Roorkee University and Masters in Production Engineering from University of Roorkee (currently, IIT Roorkee) in 1989. He received his PhD in 1994 in Mechanical Engineering with specialisation in Industrial Engineering from University of Roorkee, India. He has more than 25 years research/teaching experience. He has guided number of students for their undergraduate projects, master dissertations and PhD degrees. He contributed more than 450 publications in international/national journals/conferences of repute. His fields of interests are advanced manufacturing processes, quality engineering, metal casting and industrial engineering.