Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the agility performance level of manufacturing supply chains using Taguchi loss functions (TLFs) and design of experiment (DoE). Design/methodology/approach: The proposed methodology is used for capturing the various agility losses using...

Purpose: The paper develops a decision-making model for supplier selection combining quality function deployment (QFD), analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The efficacy of the model was demonstrated by applying it for...

Inventory costs are the major costs in production costs, so in order to gain global competitive advantage and to obtain a stable position in the market for one's product, one needs to reduce the inventory in the entire supply chain rather than optimizing at a single location. This study focuses...