The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach

The present study aims at identifying and also prioritizing information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province. The statistical population of the study consisted of all senior managers of sugarcane industries in the province. Of four large relevant companies in the fi...

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Main Authors: Reza Salehi, Mohammad Ali Asaadi, Mahmood Haji Rahimi, Ali Mehrabi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-09-01
Series:Information Processing in Agriculture
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ANP
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317320302055
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spelling doaj-387b5e41171f429bb8bc4ebe0b129d5a2021-09-23T04:39:16ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Information Processing in Agriculture2214-31732021-09-0183458468The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approachReza Salehi0Mohammad Ali Asaadi1Mahmood Haji Rahimi2Ali Mehrabi3Department of Business Management, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran; Corresponding author.Department of Agricultural Economics Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IranDepartment of Agricultural Economics Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Kurdistan, IranDepartment of Business Management, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IranThe present study aims at identifying and also prioritizing information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province. The statistical population of the study consisted of all senior managers of sugarcane industries in the province. Of four large relevant companies in the field, 34 senior managers were selected. The required data was collected through two stages hiring questionnaires. In order to evaluate information technology barriers at the supply chain level, six main dimensions were considered including technological, supply chain management, strategic, organizational, individual and customer barriers. DEMATEL technique was also used to identify the relationship between indicators, and the ANP method was also employed to prioritize the before mentioned barriers. The results of DEMATEL showed that strategic barrier indicator acts as the most influential, and the supply chain management barrier indicator as the most impotent one. The results of ANP method showed that of all research indicators, customer barrier indicator (weight 0.001 27) was the most important indicator. Next, organizational and supply chain management barrier indicators are ranked second and third, respectively. Also, among the 28 research components (sub-criteria), the “lack of financial support” component with the weight of 0.048 21 ranked first, followed by “poor outsourcing management” and “high investment and installation costs” as second and third respectively, which also had the most impact on the sugarcane supply chain.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317320302055Information technologySupply chain managementSugarcaneANPDEMATEL
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author Reza Salehi
Mohammad Ali Asaadi
Mahmood Haji Rahimi
Ali Mehrabi
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Mohammad Ali Asaadi
Mahmood Haji Rahimi
Ali Mehrabi
The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach
Information Processing in Agriculture
Information technology
Supply chain management
Sugarcane
ANP
DEMATEL
author_facet Reza Salehi
Mohammad Ali Asaadi
Mahmood Haji Rahimi
Ali Mehrabi
author_sort Reza Salehi
title The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach
title_short The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach
title_full The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach
title_fullStr The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach
title_full_unstemmed The information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province, Iran: A combined ANP-DEMATEL approach
title_sort information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in khuzestan province, iran: a combined anp-dematel approach
publisher KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.
series Information Processing in Agriculture
issn 2214-3173
publishDate 2021-09-01
description The present study aims at identifying and also prioritizing information technology barriers in supply chain of sugarcane in Khuzestan province. The statistical population of the study consisted of all senior managers of sugarcane industries in the province. Of four large relevant companies in the field, 34 senior managers were selected. The required data was collected through two stages hiring questionnaires. In order to evaluate information technology barriers at the supply chain level, six main dimensions were considered including technological, supply chain management, strategic, organizational, individual and customer barriers. DEMATEL technique was also used to identify the relationship between indicators, and the ANP method was also employed to prioritize the before mentioned barriers. The results of DEMATEL showed that strategic barrier indicator acts as the most influential, and the supply chain management barrier indicator as the most impotent one. The results of ANP method showed that of all research indicators, customer barrier indicator (weight 0.001 27) was the most important indicator. Next, organizational and supply chain management barrier indicators are ranked second and third, respectively. Also, among the 28 research components (sub-criteria), the “lack of financial support” component with the weight of 0.048 21 ranked first, followed by “poor outsourcing management” and “high investment and installation costs” as second and third respectively, which also had the most impact on the sugarcane supply chain.
topic Information technology
Supply chain management
Sugarcane
ANP
DEMATEL
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214317320302055
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