Identifying and prioritizing measures for evaluating the performance of services supply chain

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Prof., Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Gilan, Rasht, Iran

2 MSc. Student in Industrial Management, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Gilan, Rasht, Iran

Abstract

 Compared to industrial companies, we have neither enough related literature nor available researches concerning the issue of evaluating the supply chain management as well as supply chain performance. Therefore, the current article aims to identify and prioritize measures of evaluating the performance of services supply chain. Thus, we first review the related text and define the processes of supply chain. Also, we explain the measures of evaluating the mentioned processes; finally, we sort the measures in accordance with Score and Seroquel models and we design the  respected decision tree. The prepared questionnaires were distributed among the managers who are considered as the experts in service industries. Then, after gathering the completed questioners, we used fuzzy AHP for prioritizing and sorting the measures. The results show that the reliability indicator has the highest importance while intangibility has the least importance in supply chain services.



 

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Industrial Management Journal
Volume 7, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring
April 2015
Pages 151-174

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