Assessing the Impact of Information Technology on Supply Chain Management

Companies attempt to companies are attempting to find ways to improve their flexibility and responsiveness and in turn competitiveness by changing their operations strategy, methods and technologies that include the implementation of supply chain management (SCM) paradigm. Hence, information technology (IT) can enhance the agility of SCM. The aspects, however, which IT impact on SCM are not equal. In this paper, we specify the areas that IT affects on supply chain, and evaluate it. Since the judgments of Iranians automobile industry are qualitative, the evaluation has been done by fuzzy ranking method.