طراحی مدل چابکی زنجیره تأمین

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چکیده

امروزه سازمان‌ها با مسائلی هم‌چون واکنش سریع به نیازهای مشتریان، شرایط رقابتی بسیار سخت در بازار و افزایش سطح تحولات محیطی رو به­ رو هستند. در چنین محیطی، سازمان‌ها به­ صورت سنتی و با روش‌های گذشته قابل هدایت و کنترل نمی­ باشند. لازمه واکنش مؤثر و مفید به این تغییرات و کسب مزیت رقابتی از فرصت‌های حاصله، دست­یابی به چابکی سازمانی است. از آن جا که موفقیت سازمان‌ها در چنین شرایطی به تنهایی حاصل نمی­ شود، لذا زنجیره تأمین سهم بسیاری در این موفقیت دارد، به همین منظور، اهمیت ورود چابکی به زنجیره تأمین بیشتر نمود می‌یابد. زیرا چنین زنجیره­ای می‌تواند به سرعت و به­طور مؤثری به تغییرات بازار واکنش نشان دهد. از این رو از فاکتورهای اصلی موفقیت در زنجیره تأمین چابک، بررسی جامعی صورت گرفت و 11 فاکتور شناسایی شده و سپس با یافتن ارتباطات این فاکتورها در تحقیقات گذشته، مدل چابکی زنجیره تأمین طراحی گردید.

کلیدواژه‌ها


عنوان مقاله [English]

Modeling Agility of Supply Chain

چکیده [English]

Reaction to customer needs, very difficult competitive condition in market and increasing environment change are problems that today company encounter. in this environment condition cannot managing organizations by traditional method. Such useful and effective reaction and attaining competitive advantage needs agility. Because organization success in this condition don’t attained alone but supply chain have extra share in this success, thus use of agility is very important. This supply chain can rapidly reaction to market changes. Thus doing comprehensive review in Critical success factors and chose 11 factor and then by finding relation between these factor in paste study designing agility model of supply chain.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Agility
  • Supply chain
  • Critical Success Factor
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