Evaluation of Supply Chains of the Organizations through Dematel/AHP

In recent years, performance measurement and metrics of organizations have received much attention from researchers and practitioners. The role of these measures and metrics in the success of an organization cannot be overstated because they affect strategic, tactical and operational planning and control. Performance measurement and metrics have an important role to play in setting objectives, evaluating performance and determining future courses of actions. Performance measurement and metrics pertaining to leagile supply chains have not received adequate attention from researchers or practitioners. In the area of supply chain management, application of MCDM methods is limited to supplier selection and transportation carrier selection.

In this paper, fifteen organizations involved in production of apparels in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are considered for evaluation of supply chain strategies in leagile perspective using DEMATEL-AHP methodology. AHP frame work is developed with level 0 as goal of analyzing the leagile performance of the supply chains. Performance measures are considered in level 1. Level 2 contains enablers of the performance measures of leagile supply chains. Level 3 contains fifteen supply chain organizations. Weights of the performance enablers are determined through FPIR and FNIR approach without interdependence. DEMATEL is employed to determine the relative weights of the performance enablers from interdependence. DEMATEL is employed to determine the relative weights of the performance enablers from interdependence. Global weights of performance enablers are determined by successively multiplying the weights of performance measures with the weights respective enablers. Evaluation of supply chains in leagile perspective is done by finding out leagile index obtained by weighted sum of payoff of the enablers.