Designing an integrated model to evaluate and select lean and agile suppliers of the automotive industry with a combined approach of fuzzy Delphi, SWARA and ARAS

Document Type : Production & Operations Management

Authors

1 PhD Student, Department of Management and Accounting, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor in Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

4 4- Associate professor, Department of Industrial Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran.

Abstract

Objective: The main purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate suppliers based on traditional, lean and agility criteria and rank them with the combined approach of fuzzy Delphi, SWARA and ARAS in Saipa Company. Method: The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. For this purpose, by reviewing the literature extensively, key functional sub-criteria (traditional, lean and agile) were first identified. Then, using fuzzy Delphi technique, the effectiveness of these criteria in Saipa Company was evaluated. The statistical population studied in this part of the study includes 30 experts and managers of the company, who due to the limited size of the community, all members of the community were considered as a sample. Fuzzy Delphi output showed that out of 20 sub-criteria identified after evaluation by experts, 17 criteria were finally approved. Then, using the new SWARA decision-making technique and applying the opinions of 30 experts, the criteria and sub-criteria were evaluated and their weight (importance) was extracted. Results: Among the traditional criteria, the sub-criterion"costs"with the highest weight in terms of importance in the first place and the sub-criterion"operational capacity"in the last rank;Among the lean criteria, the sub-criterion of"elimination of waste"as the most important sub-criterion and the sub-criterion of "supply of materials according to the needs of the industry" in the last rank; Among the criteria of agility, the sub-criterion of"flexibility" in the first place and the sub-criterion of "strong supplier communication"in the last place are extracted.In the final evaluation of the main criteria of the research, the criterion of "agility" was in the first place, the criterion of "lean"was in the second place and the criterion of "traditional" was in the last place. Then, considering the sensitivity of the ranking of lean and agile suppliers in the company under study, using ARAS decision-making technique and based on the weight of the criteria, six suppliers of the company were evaluated by experts and the final ranking of suppliers was determined in terms of performance. Conclusion: The proposed approach of this research provides a valuable conceptual framework to company managers to improve the status of suppliers. Also, the development and improvement of traditional criteria and the selection of company suppliers based on lean criteria and agility are the main objectives of this research.

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  • Receive Date: 12 December 2021
  • Revise Date: 29 May 2022
  • Accept Date: 13 September 2022

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