Determination of relative importance of agility enablers for agile manufacturing companies by analytical hierarchy process Online publication date: Wed, 15-Mar-2017
by Muhammad Atiq-Ur-Rehman
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management (IJASM), Vol. 10, No. 1, 2017
Abstract: It is essential for any manufacturing organisation endeavouring to become agile to identify the relative importance of different agility enablers that contribute the most to agility of an organisation. So in this paper an attempt has been made to identify the agility enablers and the criteria of agile manufacturing from literature review and subsequently ranked the agility enablers after comparing their importance with each agile criterion by analytical hierarchy process (AHP) tool. Sensitivity analysis is performed on the results to check robustness of the ranking while future research opportunities in this research are also identified at the end. The results showed that the management response agility and the supply chain agility received first and second position as the most important enablers while the work force agility is the least important when it comes to make an organisation agile in nature.
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