Multi-criteria assessment of risk in the management of a food industry enterprise with the application of the analytic network process

摘要

This paper presents the possibility of applying a multicriteria method - Analytic Network Process (ANP) in taking decisions pertaining to strategic management in the food industry. Important advantages of the ANP method have been described with reference to the related Analytic Hierarchy Process in dicating the possibility of creating models reflecting issues such as benefits, costs, opportunities, and risks, which are key in decision making processes. The paper includes a risk management model for implementing an innovative quality management tool - the ISO 22000 norm. The impact of the main criteria - economic, organizational, manufacturing, technological areas together with their respective subcriteria, which influence the final decision - within the constructed subnets with respect to risk - have been presented in a comprehensive way. In the course of analysis it has been indicated that there are more arguments in favour of implementing the described solution in business practice.