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A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach to Building Resilience Along the Indian Medical Equipment Supply Chain

Title
A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach to Building Resilience Along the Indian Medical Equipment Supply Chain
Creator
Leslie Dass, P.; Nair, Sreerengan V. R.; Kumar Chandar, S.; Kurien, Georgy P.
Description
The presence of risks that lead to potential disruptions is evident along the Indian medical equipment supply chain. Identifying and prioritising the supply chain risks is pivotal in enhancing supply chain resilience, surplus, and sustainability. This study uses multicriteria Decision-Making to prioritise supply chain risks in the Indian medical equipment industry. Unstructured interviews were conducted with industry experts from six medical equipment firms to identify supply chain risks. The identified risks were prioritised using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Fuzzy AHP, and Analytic Network Process (ANP). AHP outlines the relative importance and ranks the risks. Finally, a simulation using ANP ranks the risks under different circumstances, considering the magnitude of impact and frequency of occurrence. A total of nine iterations were run to obtain a generalised rank for the identified supply chain risks under a combination of different scenarios of risk magnitude and frequency. The AHP results indicated that the industry experts considered inventory management risks as the most significant factor, followed by digitalisation and technological infrastructure. The Fuzzy AHP results revealed the triangulated weights in the same rank which was used to reiterate the findings from the AHP results with added dynamics in the form of the nearest neighbouring values. The ANP iterations revealed that supply and demand uncertainties must be managed first amidst any given risk scenario, followed by inventory and technological risks. The originality of this study is that the ANP results derived from nine iterations provide an overall decision matrix that can be generalised across the Indian medical equipment sector. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
Source
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies;Volume;413 SIST;pp.159-178
Date
01-01-2025
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Subject
Disruptions; MCDM; Medical equipment; Risk prioritisation; Supply chain risk management; Vulnerabilities contingency planning First Section
Coverage
Leslie Dass P., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Nair S.V.R., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Kumar Chandar S., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Kurien G.P., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India
Rights
All Open Access; Bronze Open Access
Relation
ISSN: 21903018; ISBN: 978-981977716-7;
Format
online
Language
English
Type
Conference paper

Citation

Leslie Dass, P.; Nair, Sreerengan V. R.; Kumar Chandar, S.; Kurien, Georgy P., “A Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach to Building Resilience Along the Indian Medical Equipment Supply Chain,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 18, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/25646.

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