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Full Length Research Paper
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Application
of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system in measurement of
supply chain agility: Real case study of a manufacturing
company
S. M. Seyedhoseini1, J.
Jassbi2 and N. Pilevari2*
1Department
of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Science
and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2Department
of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management, Science and
Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
*Corresponding author.
E-mail:
n_pilevari@yahoo.com.
Tel: +982188095937,
+989122178633. Fax: +982188989510.
Accepted 13 November, 2009 |
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Abstract |
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In this paper we have developed an approach based on Adaptive
Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for measurement of agility
in Supply Chain. An Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is frequently
considered as a dominant competitive advantage. As complexity
and vagueness of agility in global markets must be considered as
one of the essential characteristics of an ASC system, we
efficiently applied ANFIS in order to inject different and
complicated agility capabilities (that is, flexibility,
competency, cost, responsiveness and quickness) to the model in
an ambiguous environment. Moreover, different potential
attributes of ANFIS (that is, considering membership functions
for each agility capabilities, training these functions through
an adaptive procedure, using fuzzy concepts in order to model
objective attributes) made the proposed approach meritorious for
surveying real life problems. To our best knowledge such
application has been never reported for ASC and ANFIS in
literature. It has worth noting that application of the proposed
procedure as a Decision Support System (DSS) helps managers to
perform gap analysis between existent agility level and the
desired one and also provides reliable information for decision
making. The proposed procedure has efficiently been applied to a
large scale automobile manufacturing company in Iran.
Statistical analysis represent that there are no meaningful
difference between experts’ opinion and our proposed procedure
for supply chain agility measurement.
Key words:
Agile supply chain, adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (anfis),
supply chain management. |
