The Supply Chain Agility Model for Project-Oriented Organizations: The Case of Khatamal-Anbia Construction Site

Subject Areas : Industrial Management Supply Chain Trend

Mohammad Mardani Shahrbabak ¹ , Milad Kalhori ²

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology Management, Imam Hossein University
2 - Graduate Student, Department of Industrial Engineering, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-04-03 Accepted : 2020-09-05 Published : 2021-12-22

Keywords: Agile Supply Chain, supply chain management, Project-Based Organization, Khatam al-Anbia construction site,

Abstract :

An agile supply chain is capable of overcoming dynamic markets and environmental challenges. Therefore, the purpose of this applied descriptive-analytic research was to promote agility in project-based organizations’ supply chain. The research population consisted of a number of experienced experts at Khatam Al-Anbia construction sites from whom a purposeful clustered sample of experts from five sites were selected to participate in the study. The data collection instruments included three questionnaires the validity of which had been initially confirmed by 35 experts with acceptably high Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0/841, 0/810, and 0/792, respectively. The first questionnaire was employed in the initial phase of the study to identify effective components in agile supply chain and the second questionnaire was employed to identify the final criteria.  Further analyses of the data through inferential statistics, SPSS and EXCEL software underscored five major factors and 28 components of agility of supply chain. Next, the data obtained from the third quesitonnaire were analyzed via Demetel Technique to determine the criteria relationships in agility model with Amos-18 software used for model fitting and path analysis. The selected components were categorized into four dimensions of competency, speed, and resilience and information technology. Having delineated the interrelationships among these dimensions and with agility, we obtained a supply chain agility model for Khatam al-Anbia construction site with good fit. The findings indicated resilience and information technology and their sub-components as the most effective components in agility with speed and aptness coming next.

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