New LARG Strategy in Supply Chain Management: a Way to Achieve Sustainability

Environmental monitoring and sustainability improvement while maintaining productivity and profitability are accepted as strategic objectives in in current business. Therefore, it is necessary to implement management practices that not only improve the performance and efficiency of the supply chain. But also focus on economic, environmental and social dimensions.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated approach to the lean, agile, resilient and green supply chain management in automotive industry in Iran to achieve sustainability.

This paper aimed to present a new LARG strategy by reviewing the studies on lean, agile, resilient, green supply chain management. This paper is presented an analytical-hybrid model based on fuzzy DEMATEL and fuzzy analytic network process for integrating of LARG supply chain management practices in the supply chain in automotive industry in Iran. Using the fuzzy DEMATEL, the relationships between the criteria and the sub-criteria were identified and then the weights were calculated by the fuzzy analytic network process and their significance was determined.

The integrated LARG supply chain management approach includes: Strategic stock (resilient), just in time (lean), Supplier relationships (lean), Total Quality Management(lean), Ability to Change delivery times of Suppliers order (Agile), lead Time reduction (resilient), Flexible Transportation (resilient), and to Reduce Energy Consumption (Green).

according to the findings, LARG integrated strategy for achieving sustainability in the supply chain is proposed. Moving towards sustainability through implementing LARG supply chain practices is a key strategy in automotive industry in Iran.