An Analysis of Inventory Attributes in Leagile Supply Chain: Cause and Effect Analysis

Mukesh Kumar,Ashish Agarwal,Dixit Garg

doi:10.33889/ijmems.2019.4.4-069

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Abstract

In the recent era, managing a supply chain efficiency is the necessity of any business due to shorter product life cycle and market penetration order uncertainty. With the increased competition globally, organizations need to be more efficient and responsive. This situation drives attention to the concept of Leagile Supply Chain (LASC). Therefore, more attention to Lean and agile inventory attributes are advocated as the foundation to sustain competitive LASC. Trade–off between the lean and agile supply chain inventory attributes and interrelationship. Upstream lean practise based on push system and downstream agile practices based on pull system. In this paper, the cause and effect analysis is to measure the influence of integrated LASC inventory attributes on the Supply Chain Performance (SCP). From the managerial viewpoint, cause and effect diagram provides the proactive understanding to positive and negative inventory attributes affects SCP.

Highlights

The recent decade of globalization, organizations are more intended becoming aware of gaining the strategic reputation by use of holistic perspective approach on competitiveness ingredient to maintain position sustainability in the respective field (Sangari et al, 2015)
According to Competitive Strategy (CS), Lean Supply Chain (LSC) is suggested when cost is the priority while Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is suggested when speed is the priority (Mason-Jones and Towill, 1999)
To evaluate the contribution of lean and agile inventory attributes impact on the Supply Chain Performance (SCP), there is a need to develop a relationship among the SC characteristics changed by the lean and agile attributes and the relation with performance indicators

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Introduction

The recent decade of globalization, organizations are more intended becoming aware of gaining the strategic reputation by use of holistic perspective approach on competitiveness ingredient to maintain position sustainability in the respective field (Sangari et al, 2015). Tannous and Yoon (2018) reveal that the quality of global supply chain management (GSCM) hinders various areas of vertical and horizontal operations from start to end of the chain. This help to create synergy among SC stakeholders and the environmental affords social, environment and economical sustainability. According to Competitive Strategy (CS), Lean Supply Chain (LSC) is suggested when cost is the priority while Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is suggested when speed is the priority (Mason-Jones and Towill, 1999). With the increased competition globally, organizations need to be more efficient and responsive This situation drives attention to the idea of Leagile Supply Chain (LASC). The grey theory implementation for modelling preference criteria for decision makers of two dimensions that involves flexibility and sensitivity of the market

Objectives of the Work

Lean Inventory Attributes vs Supply Chain

Agile Inventory (Safety Buffer) Attributes vs

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