The Study of Effective Factors in Outsourcing Strategic Decisions

Nowadays, establishing business networks in the form of efficient supply chains have created competitive advantage for corporations and its effective performance depends on their risk management technique. Supply chain’s risks are not necessary independent of each other and they have a dynamic nature. Hence, risks should be categorized in the form of a cause and effect group to raise supply chain robustness. In such cases applying traditional risk identification methods could not necessarily valid. This matter comes more important when the risk assessment in upstream and downstream of a given supply chain is simultaneously on interest. Using the DEMATEL group decision making technique, the present paper is focused on supply chain critical risks identification method in the presence of complicated cause and effect relationships. The advantage of proposed method is on consideration of complicated structure of risks when the lack of information makes the experts opinion worthy of attention. In order to reveal the proposed method capabilities, a real case study followed in a Nissan supply chain at the Pars Khodro Corporation.