Designing a Transportation-Strategy Decision-Making Process for a Supply Chain: Case of a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Afaf Haial, Loubna Benabbou and Abdelaziz Berrado
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Afaf Haial: Analysis, Modeling and Integration of Processes and Systems (AMIPS) Research Team, EMI School of Engineering, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Agdal 10090, Rabat, Morocco
Loubna Benabbou: Management Sciences Department, Lévis Campus, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Lévis, QC G6V 0A6, Canada
Abdelaziz Berrado: Analysis, Modeling and Integration of Processes and Systems (AMIPS) Research Team, EMI School of Engineering, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Agdal 10090, Rabat, Morocco

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-29

Abstract: Including an active participation of stakeholders along the transportation decision-making process is increasingly recognized as a necessary condition for reaching successful and high-quality decisions. This paper presents a framework for deciding on the appropriate transportation strategy for a supply chain from a multistakeholder perspective. It consists of three steps: (1) defining the transportation-strategy decision-making context and the objectives that must be achieved; (2) analyzing the actual transportation strategy regarding its three components: transportation network; transportation mode; and transportation insource/outsource, as well as identifying the stakeholders interested in the study; and (3) conducting a group decision making regarding each transportation strategy’s component, while involving the key stakeholders and taking into account the specificities of transported products. The proposed framework is then applied to a real case of the Moroccan public pharmaceutical supply chain, which has different features that distinguish it from other supply chains including its importance, urgency, and regulation. We employed the DELPHI method to determine the key stakeholders that should be involved in the decisional process. After that, we applied the group AHP method for selecting the appropriate transport-network design option while involving the identified key stakeholders.

Keywords: transportation strategy; group decision-making process; multistakeholders; pharmaceutical supply chain; DELPHI method; group AHP method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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