The investigation of supply chain's reliability measure: a case study

Journal of Industrial Engineering International

دوره 8، شماره 1، فروردین 2012   

نویسندگان

Houshang Taghizadeh^{* 1}؛ Ehsan Hafezi²

¹Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

²Industrial Engineering - System Management and Productivity at the Non-Governmental and Private Higher Education Institution of ALGHADIR, Tabriz, Iran

چکیده

In this paper, using supply chain operational reference, the reliability evaluation of available relationships in supply
chain is investigated. For this purpose, in the first step, the chain under investigation is divided into several stages
including first and second suppliers, initial and final customers, and the producing company. Based on the formed
relationships between these stages, the supply chain system is then broken down into different subsystem parts.
The formed relationships between the stages are based on the transportation of the orders between stages. Paying
attention to the system elements' location, which can be in one of the five forms of series namely parallel, series/
parallel, parallel/series, or their combinations, we determine the structure of relationships in the divided subsystems.
According to reliability evaluation scales on the three levels of supply chain, the reliability of each chain is then
calculated. Finally, using the formulas of calculating the reliability in combined systems, the reliability of each
system and ultimately the whole system is investigated.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Supply chain؛ Reliability؛ Supply chain operational reference