Title: Prioritising agility variables for cold supply chains

Authors: Mohd. Nishat Faisal

Addresses: Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar

Abstract: It is recognised that organisations that focus on supply chain agility would profit as they can rapidly and cost effectively respond to unpredictable changes in the business environment. As supply chain agility is a multi-dimensional construct the present research proposes a Fuzzy-AHP based framework to prioritise agility variables in supply chains. An exhaustive literature review complimented with the experts| opinion was undertaken for cold supply chains to formulate a hierarchical structure of agility in supply chains. Understanding the priorities would help the firms to accord importance and develop strategies to improve supply chain agility variables according to their relative importance.

Keywords: cold supply chains; supply chain management; agile SCM; fuzzy AHP; analytical hierarchical process; supply chain agility.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2011.043117

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2011 Vol.10 No.3, pp.253 - 274

Published online: 06 May 2015 *

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