A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

Abstract

Academics' and practitioners' interest in sustainable supply chain management has received great concern in recent years. The application of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) plastic film has had a significant influence on the economic, environmental and social performance of supply chain management. However, research on the integration of these three sustainable dimensions is still rare in this field. In this paper, we identify sustainability criteria based on a triple bottom line approach (economic benefit, environmental protection and social responsibility) from the supply chain perspective, develop a hybrid multi-criteria decision making framework to evaluate the criteria and select alternatives and apply the proposed approach to a real case study at a focal BOPP plastic film company in China. In the framework, a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is used to determine the performance criteria weights and a fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) is applied to rank the alternatives. The case study finds that the economic dimension was the most important aspect with environmental second and social third. The results also verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework. This paper develops an effective and systematic approach for decision makers to conduct evaluations and select optimal alternatives for focal plastic film companies.

Real-Time Early Warning System for Sustainable and Intelligent Plastic Film Manufacturing

“…However, a quality deterioration phenomenon such as the tearing and folding of the surface of the film is observed after the end of the process due to the resin injected under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. Numerous domestic and international studies are underway to alleviate this deterioration [9].…”

“…Therefore, film production under digital manufacturing means that it can bring new paradigms to the traditional manufacturing market through the reduction of investment costs and management risks and the alleviation of entry barriers. This also means that custom manufacturing and easy access to raw materials can reduce energy depletion and waste problems, and that environmental pollution problems due to distribution can also be reduced [9]. Therefore, sustainable awareness growth in the film industry not only serves to improve the cyclical competitiveness of companies, but also positively affects policy support, institutions, regulations, and laws.…”

Sustainable Overall Throughputability Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.) as a Metric for Production Systems

“…The authors proposed the use of Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) in order to determine the degree of influence that each TBL factor has into the OEE factors. Other works have pointed to analyze sustainability in logistics and supply chains structures [21,22]. Another paper that deals with sustainability in supply chains was reported by De Soete [23].…”

Ship Acquisition of Shipping Companies by Sale & Purchase Activities for Sustainable Growth: Exploratory Fuzzy-AHP Application

“…Further, the transformation of qualitative selections to point estimates may not be reasonable [26]. Because the fuzzy AHP approach can take the attitude of decision makers into account, linguistic values, whose fuzzy membership functions are usually characterized by triangular fuzzy numbers, are recommended to assess priority ratings instead of the customary numerical equivalence method [27].…”