Positioning the decoupling point along a supply chain: a case study
by Hande Erdogan Aktan; Gokhan Akyuz
International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management (IJPQM), Vol. 22, No. 3, 2017

Abstract: In today's business world where the supply chains compete with one another, companies need to match their products with different supply chain (SC) strategies in order to increase their market shares, deliver the mass customised products that their customers demand at the right time and adapt to the rapid changes in the market. This paper contributes to the literature by demonstrating how products and supply chain strategies matching can be matched and how the decoupling point can be positioned along a leagile supply chain. To this end, a case study was conducted in a furniture components manufacturing company. First the products of the company were classified and matched with lean, agile or leagile supply chain strategies. With a view to determining the decoupling point of a leagile strategy, fuzzy Dematel method was applied to identify the relationships between the criteria, Dematel-based ANP (DANP) was applied to determine the weight of the criteria, fuzzy TOPSIS was applied to identify the best decoupling point (DP) and 0-1 goal programming (ZOGP) method was applied to identify the optimum alternative solution set under the constraints. This study aims to present a road map for the decision makers by using a case study as an example.

Online publication date: Thu, 12-Oct-2017

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management (IJPQM):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com