چكيده به لاتين
For long, the strategy has been significantly important for organizations and gaining competitive advantage in terms of recognizing strategic goals and correct orientations will be possible. Today, this approach goes beyond the boundaries of organizations, and supply chains are considered as strategic assets and a factor to attain the advantage. Here, we will consider the supply chain of an industry as a factor in creating more value and thus the benefit of all stakeholders.
Despite the diversity of views and methods in supply chain strategy topic, personal goals, tendencies, feelings, morale, thoughts and other psychological factors which affect the system have not been sufficiently considered. Hence, a method is needed to construct such complex definitions which are not defined properly and determine the applicable strategies. To achieve this, by exploring the literature on the Strategic Options Development and Analysis Methodology (SODA), it has been shown that this method, through stakeholders' participation and supply chain owners, has the capability to structure such issues and by creating a group understanding of the situation presents Proposed and agreed strategies of the members. The reasons for selecting the mushroom industry can be counted as the relative familiarity of the researcher with the mushroom industry, the existence of multiple problems, the existence of high potentialities in the economic and employment debate, as well as its relation with environmental conditions and community health.
The transparency of the processes and the participation of the members cause their commitment as the executives of the strategies and increases the capability of implementing the strategies. This qualitative research was aimed at demonstrating the application of soft system thinking tools in developing the strategic objectives of supply chains and in general, systems with multiple stakeholders. After interviewing with the experts (stakeholders) of the mushroom supply chain and creating cognitive maps, followed by the creation of a strategic map, the analysis and the presentation of agreed strategies of the members at various levels of the mushroom supply chain is carried out. There are relative agreements among the participants of the research regarding the proposed strategies. The results of this study indicate that SODA is an effective way of integrating strategies at the macro level of the supply chain, also the value of this research includes ease of implementation, ease of evaluation, presenting collaborative strategies, economic dimension, employment, and the environment. Finally, there are new horizons and future research suggestions presented.
Keywords:
Supply chain strategy, Mushroom supply chain, Strategic integration, Strategic options development and analysis
