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There is a growing demand for manufacturers from within and outside the company to embrace stakeholder-satisfying production techniques. As a result, companies undertake a wide range of assessments as part of their strategic planning and performance monitoring processes. The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is used in strategic planning that help businesses evaluate their current standing. In addition, through the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), a pairwise comparison may be made between elements or criteria to prioritize them, making the SWOT analysis and multicriteria decision-making method more effective. The purpose of the combined approach is to raise the effectiveness of strategic planning inside a business. This paper does a SWOT analysis of a process industry, outlining its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. First, the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) are determined via an internal poll. Then, the AHP compares alternatives by contrasting them head-to-head. The results of the company-wide poll of experts landed on seventeen distinct elements. With this information, the manufacturing firm can decide how best to boost its operations.
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Ayswer, A.S., Ramasamy, N., Anand, M.D. et al. Analysing the Performance of a Manufacturing Firm Using Hierarchical Approach. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-024-01036-0
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