A hybrid approach based on ANP, ELECTRE and SIMANP metaheuristic method for outsourcing manufacturing procedures according to supply chain risks - Case study: A medical equipment manufacturer company in Iran

Abstract

Nowadays enterprises should consider seeking to reduce the supply chain risks as a crucial part of their activities in order to improve their competitiveness in the international context. Choosing the suitable strategy in connection with assigning some parts of the production process to outside the organization is a complex multi-criteria decision making problem and it gets more complicated when supply chain risk factors as the factors to select the strategy as well as dependence and the close ties between these criteria also be considered. In this paper, after the identification of risks in the supply chain of a medical equipment manufacturer company, dependence and ties between criteria in line with choosing the best strategy among existing alternatives has been examined in the form of a combined ANP-ELECTRE method. This combined model has high performance to give a solution to the problem considered in this paper. Because of the complexity and time consuming nature of the AHP and ELECTRE, in this study a metaheuristic algorithm is developed called SIMANP that despite the simplicity of computing and high-speed, is good in the terms of precision and efficiency. The results of comparing SIMANP algorithm and the proposed ANP -ELECTRE method are presented at the end of the paper.Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 7

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“…Criteria weighting methods generally include AHP, ANP, BWM, and the methods based on them (Ajrina et al, 2018). Despite being widely used in various fields, AHP and ANP require a great number of comparisons (Farughi & Mostafayi, 2017). On the other hand, BWM has fewer comparisons.…”

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“…(1) ANP allows to show the interaction between the selection criteria at a good level and with a high accuracy compared to the direct method (Abbate et al, 2023;Farughi and Mostafayi, 2017), in our case the most relevant barriers and pathways. While ELECTRE permits to obtain the superiority of the alternatives, to rank the barriers and the corresponding pathways, in order to select the best barriers/pathways.…”

“…So far, very few research studies have dealt with Agri-food supply chain from the perspective of barriers and pathways towards greening an Agri-food supply chain. On the other hand, only few studies have reported a hybrid method (Farughi and Mostafayi, 2017;€ Ozt€ urk et al, 2018), even though the combination of the two methods ANP and ELECTRE allows to eliminate the weak alternatives and help in selecting the best alternative from the available (Farughi and Mostafayi, 2017).…”

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