The use of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is an effective way to deal with qualitative decision areas of operations management. Four published applications of AHP are briefly reviewed in forecasting, supplier selection, facility location, and choice of technology. Furthermore, four more...

Evaluation of strategic alternatives is an important task for strategic managers. This is a difficult task due to inherent complexities of the evaluation process and lack of structures information. The evaluation process must consider external opportunities and threats, an internal strengths and...

The amount of information involved in strategic decision making and the computational limitations of human decision makers makes strategy selection a difficult task. Various approaches from sheer intuition to computerized decision systems have been proposed for strategy selection. In this paper...

To compete successfully in the global market, firms are adopting ew technologies and manufacturing strategies. The just‐in‐time (JIT) philosophy and electronic data interchange (EDI) are two recent developments that can help these firms. The success of JIT depends on timely and effective...