Application of Expert System for Strategy Selection

Changing business environment and trying to achieve a competitive advantage or maintaining a prominent position in the market, motivates firms to plan manufacturing strategies. It became too complicated task when a firm emphasizes two or more competitive priorities. In this study we propose an expert system which can help in strategy selection in such situations. This system acquires knowledge about the problem and learns different strategy. Thus the system become able to make decision for given situation.

Keywords:

Manufacturing strategy , Expert system , Strategy selection , Rule-base