What's the buzz about moving from ‘lean’ to ‘agile’ integrated supply chains? A fuzzy intelligent agent-based approach

The ability to build lean and agile supply chains has not developed as rapidly as anticipated, because the development of technology to manage such concepts of lean/agile for integrated supply chains is still under way. Also, due to ill-defined and vague indicators, which exist within leanness/agility assessment, many measures are described subjectively by linguistic terms, which are characterized by vagueness and multi-possibility, and the...