Evaluation of Supply Chain by Matrix Approach

Abstract

In the manufacturing industry, each company that makes up a supply chain adds value to the final products through the chain. Although each company is indispensable to obtain the final product, the importance of each company and the evaluation of the entire supply chain varies depending on the possibility of alternative companies or the state of information sharing among the companies, and so on. In this presentation, we express the supply chain in a matrix style and apply the page rank idea used in Web page ranking to try to evaluate the importance of each company and the entire supply chain.