Abstract
Article history: Received July 25, 2012 Received in Revised form August, 26, 2012 Accepted 10 September 2012 Available online 14 September 2012 Survival of production systems has become complicated with the emergence of new areas in business. In other words, changes in business environment, which are the results of changes in customers’ needs lead us to an uncertainty in making decisions; therefore there is a need to have a flexible supply chain to confront the changes. Agility is considered as a solution to enable mass construction associations to maintain in a competitive environment of housing industry in Iran. The aim of this study is to introduce a method to evaluate the agility of supply chain for mass construction associations. The proposed method of this paper designed questionnaires to evaluate the agility of supply chain based on identified criteria and indices. The questionnaires were filled by experts and scholars and then analyzed with SPSS software. Findings of this study show that the agility of the case study of this paper is ranked 2 out of 5 or 40%. According to the evaluations of agility, the highest score goes to financial and the lowest score belongs to information technology. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Traditional associations can be recognized by their properties such as building, machineries and stock since demands were more than supplies in a stable environment, but present business environments have been under changes which are: 1. Instability and variability of the market, which increase costs, competitiveness and short period development of new products in the market.2
Agility is considered as a solution to enable mass construction associations to maintain in a competitive environment of housing industry in Iran
The aim of this study is to introduce a method to evaluate the agility of supply chain for mass construction associations
Summary
The need of response to customers’ demands, changing environments and increase the environment’s complexity has directed organizations towards the concept of “agility”. Agility can be defined as “the ability to response to the unpredictable changes and supply the various demands of the costumers according to the prices, quality, quantity and delivery” (Prince & Kay, 2003). Another definition is stated as “the ability to have reaction towards changes, and to have the power of predictability in business environment”. Some people defined agility as “the ability to have flexibility towards new technologies” and “the ability to have reactions toward rules and regulations”
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