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A Fuzzy AHP Approach to Evaluation of Value Addition in the Indian Medical Equipment Supply Chain

Title
A Fuzzy AHP Approach to Evaluation of Value Addition in the Indian Medical Equipment Supply Chain
Creator
Dass, P. Leslie; Nair, Sreerengan V. R.; Kurien, Georgy P.; Chandar, S. Kumar
Description
The research delineates the risks within the supply chain that impede firms from achieving optimal value-added ratios. A comprehensive inventory of medical equipment crucial to healthcare is identified, and manufacturing and order fulfilment durations are ascertained through non-participatory observation. Employing these durations, the value-added ratio is computed for each piece of medical equipment to assess the firms performance. The study divulges that the average value-added ratio for hospital laboratory equipment is alarmingly low, signifying the prevalence of non-value-added activities resulting in augmented costs and protracted turnaround times. Furthermore, hospital diagnostic and surgical equipment, although exhibiting higher value-added ratios in comparison with laboratory equipment, still evince an average value-added ratio below fifty per cent, underscoring that over half of the activities along this supply chain are non-value-added. These findings accentuate the necessity of addressing these issues to bolster the value addition within the Indian medical equipment supply chain. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
Source
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems;Volume;1275;pp.43-60
Date
01-01-2025
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Subject
AHP; Fuzzy; Supply chain; Value addition
Coverage
Dass P.L., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Nair S.V.R., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Kurien G.P., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Chandar S.K., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
Rights
Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
Relation
ISSN: 23673370; ISBN: 978-981962693-9;
Format
online
Language
English
Type
Conference paper

Citation

Dass, P. Leslie; Nair, Sreerengan V. R.; Kurien, Georgy P.; Chandar, S. Kumar, “A Fuzzy AHP Approach to Evaluation of Value Addition in the Indian Medical Equipment Supply Chain,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 19, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/25486.

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