AHP Based Productivity Model for a Bottling Plant

Continuous productivity improvement is essential not only to produce good earnings (profits) but also to stand better in the market. There are so many factors, which are effecting on productivity. Special attention must be given to those factors, which are effecting highly on productivity. An appropriate system is essential to identify those factors, whose contribution to productivity is relatively high. This paper explains such a system where multidimensionality of the related issues has been represented by hierarchical model and subsequently the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been applied to identify the contribution to productivity by the different factors of productivity. Case study from a bottling plant of PepsiCo India has been taken to explain the proposed method.