Using Agility to Reduce the Bullwhip Effect of Supply Chains

Abstract

With the intensification of market competition and the improvement of environmental awareness, sustainable development has become the theme of the development of the global society in the twenty-first century. More and more people are paying attention to environmental friendliness and sustainable development of society. As an enterprise is a link in the supply chain, it is impossible to avoid the problem of bullwhip effect common in the supply chain. Agility can effectively improve the adverse impact of bullwhip effect and improve sustainability. The main purpose of this study is to explore the use of the key criteria of agility to quickly respond to the problem of the bullwhip effect in the supply chain to achieve the purpose of sustainability. Dragon net environmental protection company in Fujian as an example, the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) as a basic framework, through literature catalogued, it is concluded that the bullwhip effect factors and agile force rules, the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) screening of bullwhip effect of the key factors and the key principles of agile force, then using Fuzzy Interpretive Structure Modeling (FISM) analysis of bullwhip effect between the key factors influence each other relations, again by Analytic Network Process (ANP) to explore the correlation between the bullwhip effect factors and weight size, finally by the Grey Relation Analysis (GRA) to get the final sorting result. The research of this paper is of great significance to the sustainable development of environmental protection enterprises and can provide the basis for managers to make decisions.