An empirical investigation among Malaysian manufacturing companies

Managing the supply chain is not easy, especially when it involves many partners. However, recently establishing an agile supply chain has dramatically become significant for managers or executive directors in any organization, especially in meeting the goals of the company and striving to maintain it for a competitive position. The aim of this study is to identify the main factors that have an effect on effective agile supply chain as well as to measure the effects of identified factors on an effective agile supply chain. Agile supply chain is the same supply chain activities. The sole difference is that agile supply chain emphasize on flexibility and response to market.

Autorentext

Maryam Malakouti is PhD candidate & research assistant at UTM perdana school, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Milad Kalantari Shahijan is PhD candidate & research assistant at UTM Razak School of Engineering and Advanced Technology. Norihan Abu Hassan is associate professor at UTM Perdana School.