A novel hybrid MCDM approach based on fuzzy DEMATEL, fuzzy ANP and fuzzy TOPSIS to evaluate green suppliers

A review on green supply chain aspects and practices

“…Lin (2013) was in agreement by stating that green design is closely related to product safety, environmental risk management, resource conservation, waste management and pollution prevention. Along similar lines, Büyüközkan and Çifçi (2012) and Jabbour and Jabbour (2009) said that a well-designed product does not use hazardous or restricted materials during manufacturing and should minimize waste during production. In reference to today's green economy, stated that the design of disassembly will be the strong base for the design of remanufacturing and recycling.…”

“…GSCM not only focuses on environmental issues but also economic aspects too. An appropriate reverse logistic system should be designed to achieve efficiency and, thereby, achieve economic benefit for the company (Büyüközkan and Çifçi, 2012;Govindani et al, 2015;Srivastava, 2007).…”

Communicating supply chain risks and mitigation strategies: a comprehensive framework

“…Fuzzy TOPSIS incorporates the easiness of implementation of TOPSIS in a fuzzy environment. It is capable of capturing the vagueness of uncertainty in the evaluation of alternative risk mitigation strategies and provides the efficiency in the decision-making (Büyüközkan and Çifçi 2012;Samedi et al 2013;Wang 2015). Following the sources of Wang and Durugbo (2013) and Wang (2015), the mathematical steps involved in the fuzzy TOPSIS method are described Appendix 2.…”

Integrated approach for sustainable product development using QFD and ANP

“…Most companies use a variety of methods to determine the final importance rating of customer requirements including Conjoint analysis (Chaudhuri and Bhattacharyya, 2009), analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (Saaty, 2001), (Rehman and Ahamri, 2013) fuzzy AHP, analytic network process (ANP) (Saaty, 2001;Karsak et al, 2002), fuzzy ANP, fuzzy weighted average, grey model, PROMETHEE (Ilangkumaran et al, 2013), TOPSIS (Shahroudi and Rouydel, 2012), DEMATEL (Buyukozkan and Cifci, 2012), Vikor, group decision-making approach, etc. Above methods are often used in synchronous manner.…”

“…All the interactions and feedbacks within clusters are called interdependencies where as interactions and feedbacks between clusters are called outer dependencies. Some of the recent applications of ANP include product planning with goal programming (Karsak et al, 2003), machine tool selection (Ayag and Ozddemir, 2011), flexible manufacturing system (FMS) selection (Chatterjee and Chakraborty, 2014;Maniya and Bhatt, 2011), hybrid approach based on DEMATEL, AHP, TOPSIS for evaluating green supplier (Buyukozkan and Cifci, 2012), product development (Soota et al, 2011;Zaim et al, 2014), optimum material evaluation for manufacturing of automobile bumper (Ilangkumaran et al, 2013), multi-criteria inventory classification (Kabir and Hasin, 2013), operations management review (Subramanian and Ramanathan, 2012), supplier selection (Chatterjee and Chakraborty, 2014;Yazdani, 2014), sustainable energy planning (Pohekar and Ramachandran, 2004), material handling equipment selection (Onut et al, 2009), evaluation of alternative industrial robots (Rehman and Ahamri, 2013), material selection (Rao and Patel, 2010), etc.…”