Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/310041 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Logistics [ISSN:] 2305-6290 [Volume:] 3 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1-14
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
Dairy farming is a subsidiary profession of agriculture in India where dairy cooperatives are an important part of rural development. The current study explores the critical factors in the dairy supply chain, and provides an initial decision framework for its implications. The necessary data were collected from dairy producer members including dairy farmers, executives, and key informants of processing units, to summarize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) of the milk processing system in India. This includes identifying the objectives of the dairy industry, along with the internal and external critical factors (CFs). SWOT exploration does not offer any investigative basis for evaluating the priorities of CFs, therefore the analytic hierarchy process is applied to define the priorities of identified CFs. The CFs have also been ordered according to relative importance. The findings of this study depict that the SWOT based methodology offers vital sensitivity in assessing the supply chain strategies for the dairy industry.
Subjects: 
analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
critical factors
dairy industry
multiple criteria decision making
supply chain
SWOT analysis
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