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In recent years, disseminating the knowledge among customers and stakeholders regarding production and distribution of items is grabbing more attention in the global supply chain system. The manufacturing industry is very important in delivering healthy products for life saving of the society. In this perspective, the present work focuses on prioritization of key barriers in the food sector in a developing economy scenario like Pakistan. The core objective of the existing research is to concentrate on prioritizing the essential factors based on fuzzy AHP methods in the perspectives of sustainable supply chain. Therefore, a quantitative analytical tool is employed for the selection and ranking of these barriers and primary data were collected through well-structured questionnaire and experts interviews. The study makes certain contributions to the literature by identifying and prioritizing the barriers. Furthermore, the results of this research suggest that decision makers should identify the barriers first then enhance the organizational performance and sustainability. Finally, the prioritization of (KM) barriers is expected to facilitate the food sector to design the knowledge management practices in a sustainable way.
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Nazam, M., Hashim, M., Ahmad, W., Baig, S.A. (2021). When Barriers Need Attention: Adoption of Knowledge Management in Sustainable Supply Chain. In: Xu, J., Duca, G., Ahmed, S., García Márquez, F., Hajiyev, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1191. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49889-4_10
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