Notice of RetractionIdentifying key success factors in strategic management of supply chain and the interrelations of these factors

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With the increasing interest of organizations to join supply chains, and achieve the competitive advantages of such an act, the notion of strategic management of organization shifts to strategic management of supply chain as a whole and single entity. This paper studied the most available literature on strategic management of supply chain and identified 27 major factors and found the importance of each one from the viewpoint of experts. By this, seven factors which are more influential got identified and then the second questionnaire was developed for applying DEMATEL method and it was issued to a group of 18 chosen experts to find the causal relation among these seven factors and to find the key success factors in strategic management of supply chain. The results showed that participating suppliers in customers´ product development and sharing expertise and technology, as well as creating a greater level of mutual trust among supply chain members are the key success factors in implementing strategic management of supply chain and they are influential and interactive with the remaining 5 factors.