An Approach to Assess Sustainable Supply Chain Agility for a Manufacturing Organization

Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution this research to explore evaluate supply chains dairy manufacturing organization located Saudi Arabia. Other contributions are update the literature about different factors contributing achieve agile chain, propose conceptual framework assessment approach incorporating relationships between capabilities, enablers, attributes, shortlisting barriers how they would facilitate organizations’ performance. paper presents chain evaluation approach, which covers identification capabilities drivers. It also model define level within supply-chain. In paper, fuzzy logic preferred, owing its capability incorporate deal with problems involving impreciseness vagueness phenomena. Threshold-value study case set 0.24829. outcome adopted indicates 21 attributes performed below threshold value; these further categorized as barriers. These their impact agility-level. For organization, foremost priority enhance maintainability serviceability make it flexible inexpensive establish an responsive chain. At same time, should have focus on development integration core competencies cross-functional cross-enterprise issues was found “very agile,” although “extremely agile.” Thus, developed understand behaviour assess/evaluate support decision makers order develop strategic solution organizational