An Integrated Approach for Supply Chain Assessment from Resilience Engineering and Ergonomics Perspectives

In this study an integrated approach is presented for analyzing the impact of resilience engineering and ergonomics factors in aerospace supply chain using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The proposed approach could select the preferred supplier by considering traditional supply chain factors as well as resilience engineering and ergonomics factors. Also, the relevant performance efficiency of each decision making unit is calculated. The case of this study is the supply chain of real commercial airlines. Thus, aerospace standards as well as resilience and ergonomics factors are considered to be modeled by the mathematical programming approach. 22 suppliers are evaluated by analyzing inputs and outputs through data envelopment analysis, and each supplier is considered as a decision making unit (DMU). In this study, the most effective factors are identified as reliability , Human resource management , supplier’s delay and availability . Also, lead time shows the highest potential for improvement. This study would help decision makers to identify the weaknesses of their SCM to establish a performance improvement plan in aerospace industry.

Keywords:

Aerospace supply chain , Data envelopment analysis (DEA) , Ergonomics , Resilience Engineering