Presenting Agile Supply Chain Model by Using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) Approach

In the current competitive era, the successful organizations implement new strategies based on competitive advantages rapidly and by learning from market and customers, improve their processes and operation. Unpredicted changes in current business environment due to the varied needs of customers lead to the consideration of organizations to agility concept as a basic feature for their competition in varied market. On the other hand, agility of an organization depends upon the agility of its supply chain. This study is aimed to identify and ranking agility indices of supply chain. Based on the review of literature and interview with experts, 9 main characteristics of agile supply chain success were identified. The present study attempted to rank the effective factors on agile supplier by interpretive structure modeling and present in a framework of a dependency and driving power chart. The results of this process help the suppliers to select a suitable path to increase their agility and competitiveness.