Supply chain manager selection using a combined multiple intelligences theory and ANP approach

摘要

Modern supply chain managers are required to possess a set of competencies or multiple intelligences in order to meet the pressing business challenges. However, although many works have studied problems in supply chain management, few of those discussed the issue of supply chain manager selection. Especially, selecting competent supply chain managers is a kind of Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problem which requires us to consider a large number of complex factors as multiple-criteria. Many traditional MCDM methods are based on the independence assumption, whereas the Analytic Network Process (ANP) is a MCDM method which can deal with all kinds of dependences systematically. Since the ANP has these advantages, this paper proposes a favorable method combining multiple intelligences theory with ANP approach to help companies that need to select competent supply chain managers. Additionally, an empirical study is presented to illustrate the application of the proposed method.