A review of applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process in operations management

By Nachiappan Subramanian, Ramakrishnan Ramanathan. 2012

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The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in operations management and suggest possible gaps from the point of view of researchers and practitioners. This paper systematically categorises the published literature from 1990 to 2009 in 291 peer reviewed journals articles (searched via Emerald, Ingenta, MetaPress, ProQuest, and ScienceDirect) and then reviews and analyses them methodologically. Our analysis has revealed that a significant number of AHP applications are found when problems require considerations of both quantitative and qualitative factors (e.g., socioeconomic operations decisions). AHP has been largely applied to macro (complex and real) and people (managerial–subjective) oriented problems. The most addressed decision themes are product and process design and, managing the supply chain. A majority of AHP applications are application or case study oriented and only a few papers aimed at contributing to AHP modelling before applying to practical problems. Our review has found that significant research gap exists in the application of AHP in the areas of forecasting, layout of facilities and managing stocks. This paper presents a comprehensive listing of AHP applications in operations management and develops a framework for identifying the decision areas that have better research gaps to be studied by future researchers.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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The state-of-the-art integrations and applications of the analytic hierarchy process (2017, background): “Subramanian and Ramanathan (2012) reviewed 291 journal articles published from 1999 to 2009 that applied the stand-alone and integrated AHP approaches in operations management.”
Big data analytics in logistics and supply chain management: Certain investigations for research and applications (2016, positive): “Each sub-problem is a single objective decision making problem that can be solved quite easily (Vaidya and Kumar, 2006; Ho, 2008; Ho et al., 2012; Subramanian and Ramanathan, 2012; Rajesha and Malligab, 2013).”
Fuzzy logic modifications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (2017, background): “1 Surveys of other areas of AHP applications can be found in Vargas (1990), Vaidya and Kumar (2006), Subramanian and Ramanathan (2012) and Saaty and Vargas (2012).”