Analyze the Manufacturing Flexibility of Manufacturing Organizations using AHP

An increasing incertitude in the market environment is created by swift and incessant changes in merely three things, expectations, competition and demand of customer. In manufacturing industry the manufacturing flexibility influences response to the threats posed by environmental incertitude. Manufacturing Industries are trying to be more flexible to compete in this fierce rivalry. Research and Development capabilities, supplier capabilities and technological capabilities affect the manufacturing flexibility in the firms. In this paper stress is laid to analyze the manufacturing by application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to flexibility and to see the impact on the different parameters indeed on flexibility.