Positioning push–pull boundary in a hesitant fuzzy environment

Abstract

AbstractNowadays, fierce competition enforces supply chain planners to develop market‐oriented production strategies. Customer order decoupling point (CODP) could increase the supply chain efficiency and responsiveness simultaneously. The right position of CODP in production industries will result in a pattern for trade‐off between responsiveness and operational efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to address the positioning problem of a push‐pull boundary in a fuzzy hesitant environment. To this end, a hybrid multi‐criteria decision‐making methodology of analytic network process (ANP) and VIKOR is proposed in a hesitant judgement environment to determine the position of CODP in a supply chain. Finally, CODP positioning in the apparel supply chain, as an industry‐based example, is analysed to show the applicability of the proposed method.