Mostafa Ebrahimpour Azbari; Mahmoud Moradi; Mohsen Momeneh
Abstract
In recent years, due to changes in global markets and competition among supply chains, organizations found out that to grow and survive in today’s turbulent environment they should use of all their efforts to create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage. On the other hand, the pressure ...
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In recent years, due to changes in global markets and competition among supply chains, organizations found out that to grow and survive in today’s turbulent environment they should use of all their efforts to create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage. On the other hand, the pressure of customers and stakeholder demands have convinced the organizations to consider sustainable components such as social and environmental issues and led to the emergence the concept of sustainable supply chain management. This paper addresses the effective factors on sustainable supply chain management and the relationships between its internal and external activities, and ultimately addresses how the selection and use of sustainable supply chain management activities can help the organization to create sustainable competitive advantage. This study is done on the existing industries of Kermanshah using the partial least squares (PLS) with a sample of 72 firms. The results show that the pressure of customers and innovativeness are effective for the sustainable supply chain management activities, moreover confirmed the impacts of the SSCM activities on the creation of sustainable competitive advantage
Mohammad Hoseyn Karimi; Nima Esfandiari; Mahmoud Moradi
Volume 13, Issue 39 , January 2016, , Pages 145-170
Abstract
Many companies are pursuing agile manufacturing in order to reduce costs, improve customer service and attaining competitive advantage. After reviewing theoretical background and literature on agility, this paper presents agility attributes, criteria and enablers. Then a framework developed in order ...
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Many companies are pursuing agile manufacturing in order to reduce costs, improve customer service and attaining competitive advantage. After reviewing theoretical background and literature on agility, this paper presents agility attributes, criteria and enablers. Then a framework developed in order to prioritize and analyze agility indices with considering major competitive advantage. Hybrid Fuzzy Quality Function Deployment (FQFD) and Gap Analysis (GA) approach used to prioritize indices based on experts in an organization. Findings point out that “manufacturing management agility” has lowest maturity among agility enablers that lead this enabler to takes maximum importance. Furthermore, “manufacturing management agility” obtained most weight by FQFD, meaning this enabler has maximum priority and importance for organization. Interestingly, “knowledge management criterion” got first priority among all criteria by regarding maximum gap in gap analysis approach
