An Integrated MA-AHP Approach for Selecting the Highest Sustainability Index of a New Product

Hassan, Mohd Fahrul; Saman, Muhamad Zameri Mat; Sharif, Safian; Omar, Badrul

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.1180

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“…Basically, AHP involves comparing pairs to a number of different criteria after dividing the criteria into a hierarchy of multiple levels [56]. These factors will be compared to each other in a matrix, as shown in Table 8.…”

Section: Stage 2-determination Of Indicator Weightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposal of a Sustainability Index for the Automotive Industry

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Abstract:In a scenario of increasing globalization, sustainable development has emerged as an attractive and strategic issue for both countries and individual organizations and their supply chains. Companies have faced different challenges in seeking to combine the best economic performance with increased social and environmental responsibility. Monitoring sustainability is essential for decision-making and management of activities that comprise an organization's system processes. Evaluation can be performed using indices or a set of indicators. In addition to increasing organizational effectiveness and improving competitiveness, customer service and profitability, it is also a crucial influence on the development of business sustainability. This paper proposes a sustainability index that provides companies with information about their level of economic, social and environmental sustainability, showing their performance at both individual and supply chain level. The importance of the indicators is assessed by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology applied to a case study of a supply chain in the automotive industry. The various stages experienced during the construction of the index are also shown. The final results achieved are then presented and discussed in light of the objectives. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 2114

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Section: Stage 2-determination Of Indicator Weightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposal of a Sustainability Index for the Automotive Industry

et al. 2015

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“…Theory and assessment method AHP is a multi-dimensional decision-making technique often used to solve complex problems in a variety of disciplines (e.g., environmental assessment, efficiency evaluation, industrial manufacturing (Hassan et al 2012)). In the water resource sector, AHP is a powerful tool used for the hierarchical decomposition of complex problems, such as integrated water resources management for watershed management (Zimmels et al 2006;Houshyar et al 2014).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Multi-index integrated assessment and analysis of town-sewage treatment priorities in China

Yan

Wang

et al. 2014

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Water quality is one of the most serious problems of environment and national sustainable development strategy now facing China. After hard work over the last several decades, urban-sewage treatment in China is now relatively well developed. It now affords mainly higher levels of sewage collection and treatment, as well as pollution-load control. The characteristic rapid urbanization now occurring in China is still increasing and developing dramatically, and involves large numbers of people. However, in towns, sewage treatment infrastructure is inadequate, and a high percentage of the sewage generated there is not effectively collected and treated. The sewage and pollution load of such towns have become the most important reason for environmental water problems in China. To understand the priorities of sewage treatment in such towns, and their spatial distribution in China, we conducted two nationwide investigations of water use and sewage discharge in towns. Based on the integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP), assessment indices and a framework of town-sewage treatment priorities in China were constructed. Then, we assessed and analyzed the priorities of towns regarding three aspects of sewage treatment: environmental stress, economic capability, and infrastructure. The results showed that the southeast coastal areas and north China had higher demand for sewage treatment than other areas. The demand in eastern and western areas had obvious differences in spatial distribution, but had nearly no differences within those areas. The towns having the greatest demand for high-priority sewage treatment were concentrated in regions with high economic capability and intense water resource utilization.

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“…In the development stage, evaluation methods are used to assess the product's architecture. This evaluation can be used to compare concepts on sustainability indicators [26] or compare components in order to select the best one in terms of sustainable performance [27].…”

Section: Sustainable Performancementioning

confidence: 99%