Argues that a key, albeit implicit, theme which runs through much of the manufacturing management literature is goal congruence. After exploring the concept of goal congruence, proposes a methodology for its measurement. This methodology has been used in two small manufacturing enterprises...

With increasingly complex logistics information technology and dynamic logistics operations in a global setting, today′s logistics managers confront an overwhelming number of decision alternatives. Perhaps the most effective way of evaluating such a large number of alternatives is to utilize...

Since its introduction in the mid‐1970s, Saaty′s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been applied to a variety of decision problems. A new area of application is introduced in this article. We present here the application of the AHP to a strategic planning problem as faced by one local Ann...

It is clearly not enough in product research to show that people prefer one product to another, but one must also show what attributes of the product cause them to prefer it. Saaty′s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is an appropriate method for measuring and analysing multidimensional...