International Journal of Management and International Business Studies.
ISSN 2277-3177 Volume 4, Number 2 (2014), pp. 149-158
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A Fuzzy Based Decision Support Framework towards
Benchmarking of Enterprise (Supply Chain) Agility:
An Empirical Research
Arup Gourab Sahoo
1
, Santosh Kumar Sahu
2
, Chhabi Ram Matawale
3
,
Saurav Datta
4*
and Siba Shankar Mahapatra
5
1
B.Tech
2
M-Tech (Research)
3
Ph.D Research Scholar
12345
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela-769008, Odisha, INDIA
Abstract
In current scenario, selection of agile enterprises is very crucial to the
supply chain agility and competition. Due to the vague and ill-defined
performance indicators which exist within agility assessment, most
measures are described subjectively by linguistic terms which are
characterized by ambiguity and multi-possibility. Therefore, this work
presents a fuzzy-TOPSIS approach to handle with the alternative
selection problem in agile supply chain systems. In this concept, a
closeness coefficient is defined to determine the ranking order of all
the alternatives by calculating the distances to the both fuzzy positive
ideal solution and fuzzy negative ideal solution, simultaneously.
Finally the effectiveness of the model is illustrated using a case
empirical study.
1. Introduction and State of Art
Agile supply chain (ASC) is an advanced concept in global manufacturing and
collective enterprise management. Agile Supply Chain Management (ASCM) is the
combination of agile conception and SCM, which makes enterprises work together
through collaborative manage and improves the agility enterprises, even whole supply
chain management. The key of building double profit ASCM is select agile, strength
and consistent suppliers [1-2]. It can also improve SCM efficiency. Traditional supply
relationship can’t adapt global competition and product requirement variety. As