Providing a Model for Supply Chain Agility of Ground-Based Military Products and Its Impact on Supply Chain Performance

The most important goal of manufacturing military products in Iran is self-reliance and defensive deterrence against threats. These two goals have led to international competition of Iranian military industries with pioneer countries in this field. The rapid manufacturing of diverse and new military products by advanced countries enforced Iran s military industries supply chain to produce diverse products rapidly. Manufacturing military products by such features needs an agile supply chain, which can produce diverse military products rapidly and meet different volumes of demand. Military products are categorized into three groups: ground-based, air-based, and sea-based. Although airbased and sea-based military products are known as strategic military products in the world, ultimate success has not yet been achieved in any global military event without the help of ground-based military products. This paper aims to provide a model that shows the relations between supply chain agility practices for ground-based military products and their impact on chain performance. To this end, first, we identified the most important supply chain agility practices by expert’s questionnaire.Then, using factor analysis, practices are categorized. Finally, the final model is represented by using interpretative structure model (ISM). Research findings indicate that there are 41 effective practices in the agility of military products supply chain within 8 groups including supplier’s relationship, workshop level management, improving organizational structure, improving human resources, product design, process integration and improvement, IT utilization, and customer’s relation. The final model of this research indicates that using such practices in the format of hierarchical relations will lead to the proper responsiveness of the military products supply chain to its customers

Keywords:

supply chain , agility , ISM , military products , performance improvement