A Novel Model Proposal for Green Supplier Selection: An Application in the Retail Industry

Abstract

Today, good relations between companies and suppliers provide companies with a competitive advantage. Determining the supplier selection criteria and rewarding the suppliers by evaluating them at certain times is of great importance in establishing successful relations with the suppliers.
 
 For these reasons, in this study, it is aimed to determine and weight the criteria to be considered in the supply of products and fabrics in companies operating in the textile sector and to present the best results to green suppliers. In line with the determined purpose, studies were carried out in a retail company located in Istanbul from the textile sector. Supplier evaluation criteria were collected from the company and other studies in the literature and analyzed in two areas as main and sub-criteria.
 
 The evaluation of 34 different sub-criteria under the main criteria of cost, quality, delivery, flexibility, environmental management, technology and social was made by 3 experts. In the solutions of the evaluations, the best-worst method was preferred. The criteria weights determined according to the Best-Worst method were evaluated with the Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment method and the ranking of 9 suppliers was revealed. Excel program was used during the analysis of the data.