AHP-based support tools for initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions

Movin Sequeira, P. Hilletofth, A. Adlemo
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Purpose The existing literature expresses a strong need to develop tools that support the manufacturing reshoring decision-making process. This paper aims to examine the suitability of analytical hierarchy process (AHP)-based tools for initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions. Design/methodology/approach Two AHP-based tools for the initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions are developed. The first tool is based on traditional AHP, while the second is based on fuzzy-AHP. Six high-level and holistic reshoring criteria based on competitive priorities were identified through a literature review. Next, a panel of experts from a Swedish manufacturing company was involved in the overall comparison of the criteria. Based on this comparison, priority weights of the criteria were obtained through a pairwise analysis. Subsequently, the priority weights were used in a weighted-sum manner to evaluate 20 reshoring scenarios. Afterwards, the outputs from the traditional AHP and fuzzy-AHP tools were compared to the opinions of the experts. Finally, a sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate the stability of the developed decision support tools. Findings The research demonstrates that AHP-based support tools are suitable for the initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions. With regard to the presented set of criteria and reshoring scenarios, both traditional AHP and fuzzy-AHP are shown to be consistent with the experts' decisions. Moreover, fuzzy-AHP is shown to be marginally more reliable than traditional AHP. According to the sensitivity analysis, the order of importance of the six criteria is stable for high values of weights of cost and quality criteria. Research limitations/implications The limitation of the developed AHP-based tools is that they currently only include a limited number of high-level decision criteria. Therefore, future research should focus on adding low-level criteria to the tools using a multi-level architecture. The current research contributes to the body of literature on the manufacturing reshoring decision-making process by addressing decision-making issues in general and by demonstrating the suitability of two decision support tools applied to the manufacturing reshoring field in particular. Practical implications This research provides practitioners with two decision support tools for the initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions, which will help managers optimize their time and resources on the most promising reshoring alternatives. Given the complex nature of reshoring decisions, the results from the fuzzy-AHP are shown to be slightly closer to those of the experts than traditional AHP for initial screening of manufacturing relocation decisions. Originality/value This paper describes two decision support tools that can be applied for the initial screening of manufacturing reshoring decisions while considering six high-level and holistic criteria. Both support tools are applied to evaluate 20 identical manufacturing reshoring scenarios, allowing a comparison of their output. The sensitivity analysis demonstrates the relative importance of the reshoring criteria.
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基于AHP的制造业回流决策初步筛选支持工具
目的现有文献表达了开发支持制造回流决策过程的工具的强烈需求。本文旨在检验基于层次分析法(AHP)的工具对制造回流决策的初步筛选的适用性。设计/方法/方法开发了两个基于AHP的工具,用于初步筛选制造回流决策。第一种工具是基于传统的AHP,而第二种工具则是基于模糊AHP。通过文献综述,确定了六项基于竞争优先事项的高水平和整体回流标准。接下来,瑞典一家制造公司的专家小组参与了标准的总体比较。在此基础上,通过成对分析获得了标准的优先级权重。随后,以加权和的方式使用优先级权重来评估20个回流场景。然后,将传统AHP和模糊AHP工具的输出与专家的意见进行了比较。最后,进行了敏感性分析,以评估所开发的决策支持工具的稳定性。研究表明,基于AHP的支持工具适用于制造业回流决策的初步筛选。对于所提出的标准集和回流场景,传统AHP和模糊AHP都与专家的决策一致。此外,模糊层次分析法的可靠性略高于传统层次分析法。根据敏感性分析,对于成本和质量标准的权重值较高,六个标准的重要性顺序是稳定的。研究局限性/含义所开发的基于AHP的工具的局限性在于,它们目前只包括数量有限的高级决策标准。因此,未来的研究应该集中在使用多级体系结构为工具添加低级标准上。目前的研究通过解决一般的决策问题,并通过证明两种决策支持工具特别适用于制造业回流领域,为制造业回流决策过程的大量文献做出了贡献。实际意义这项研究为从业者提供了两种决策支持工具,用于初步筛选制造业回流决策,这将帮助管理者优化他们在最有前景的回流替代方案上的时间和资源。考虑到回流决策的复杂性,在制造业搬迁决策的初步筛选中,模糊AHP的结果比传统AHP的结果更接近专家的结果。独创性/价值本文描述了两种决策支持工具,可用于制造业回流决策的初步筛选,同时考虑六个高层次和整体的标准。这两种支持工具都用于评估20种相同的制造回流场景,从而可以比较它们的输出。敏感性分析表明了回流标准的相对重要性。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing aims to foster and lead the international debate on global operations and strategic sourcing. It provides a central, authoritative and independent forum for the critical evaluation and dissemination of research and development, applications, processes and current practices relating to sourcing strategically for products, services, competences and resources on a global scale and to designing, implementing and managing the resulting global operations. Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing places a strong emphasis on applied research with relevant implications for both knowledge and practice. Also, the journal aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas and opinions on research projects and issues. As such, on top of a standard section publishing scientific articles, there will be two additional sections: "The Industry ViewPoint": in this section, industrial practitioners from around the world will be invited (max 2 contributions per issue) to present their point of view on a relevant subject area. This is intended to give the journal not just an academic focus, but a practical focus as well. In this way, we intend to reflect a trend that has characterised the past few decades, where interests and initiatives in research, academia and industry have been more and more converging to the point of collaborative relationships being a common practice. "Research Updates - Executive Summaries". In this section, researchers around the world will be given the opportunity to present their research projects in the area of global sourcing and outsourcing by means of an executive summary of their project. This will increase awareness of the on-going research projects in the area and it will attract interest from industry.
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