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Table 6 Top 20 risks of sales management function

From: Pharmaceutical supply chain risk assessment in Iran using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and simple additive weighting (SAW) methods

Rank

Risks

Weight

Rank

Risks

Weight

1

Pricing policies

1.0000

11

Operational cost

0.6636

2

Lobbing

0.8199

12

Currency fluctuation

0.6576

3

Inflation rate

0.7993

13

Cash flow

0.6503

4

Distribution & coverage

0.7883

14

New competitors (new medicine or new company)

0.6485

5

Unstable policies

0.7767

15

Interest rate

0.6350

6

Sanctions

0.7485

16

Time to market

0.6240

7

MOH policy fluctuation

0.7167

17

Managerial knowledge

0.6197

8

Information flow

0.6924

18

Strategies

0.6180

9

Regulation transparency

0.6895

19

Competition

0.6177

10

Product selection

0.6733

20

Demand forecasting

0.5939