Fuzzy DEMATEL approach for agile supplier selections performance criteria

Abstract

The strategy of agile supplier selections (ASS) process has adopted the recent era due to global competitive edges in a rapidly changing business environment. The sustainable agile performance criteria are the key necessity for market variations and more customer responsiveness. Therefore, the adaptation of ASS process is a key requirement to overcome the market variations and influence by number's criteria. ASS is a major issue in Supply Chain Management (SCM), due to various uncertainties of market demand, lumpy demand, mismatch of supply and demand patterns, in these causes' selection of supplier procedure is a difficult task in the automotive industry. Due to volatile market demand and more customer responsiveness, it is stimulating that inter-organization to balances the effective and efficient customer needs in volatile market demand patterns. This problem will be resolved by incorporating with human judgment skill capability in linguistic scale patterns. ASS has employed such method as the Fuzzy logic and DEMATEL approaches to perform better in global competitiveness. It strives to sustain the volatile market demand by appropriate ASS performance criteria. With the help of the literature survey, 14 agile supplier selection criteria have selected for better influence or support for ASS procedures.