An integrated MCDM approach to green supplier selection

Abstract

Supplier selection management has been considered as an important subject for industrial organizations. In order to remain on the market, to gain profitability and to retain competitive advantage, business units need to establish an integrated and structured supplier selection system. In addition, environmental protection problems have been big solicitudes for organizations to consider green approach in supplier selection problem. However, finding proper suppliers involves several variables and it is critically a complex process. In this paper, the main attention is focused on finding the right supplier based on fuzzy multi criteria decision making (MCDM) process. The weights of criteria are calculated by analytical hierarchical process (AHP) and the final ranking is achieved by fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS). TOPSIS advantage among the other similar methods is to obtain the best solution close to ideal solution. The paper attempts to express better understanding by an example of an automobile manufacturing supply chain.

Métodos quantitativos para seleção de fornecedores sustentáveis: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

“…No entanto, a partir de 2014 o crescimento aumentou significativamente, conforme ilustrado na Figura 3. Em relação ao método de classificação das técnicas (Figura 2), a maior parte (85%) dos artigos (KHAMSEH; MAHMOODI, 2014;BAI;SARKIS, 2010;BAKESHLOU et al, 2014;BÜYÜKÖZKAN;ÇIFÇI, 2011;CAO;WU;LIANG, 2015;DOBOS;VÖRÖSMARTY, 2014;FREEMAN;CHEN, 2015;HASHEMI;KARIMI;TAVANA, 2015;JIA et al, 2015;KANNAN et al, 2013;SOUSA JABBOUR;JABBOUR, 2014;RAJENDRAN, 2014;LI, 2015;WANG;TIEN, 2010;LEE et al, 2009;WEI, 2014;WEI, 2015;SARKIS;DHAVELE, 2015;TAN et al, 2014;TSUI;WEN, 2014;YAZDANI, 2014;ZHAO;GUO, 2014;ZHOU et al, 2012) aplicou de forma combinada as técnicas para seleção de fornecedores verdes/sustentáveis. Somente 4 artigos (15%) utilizaram uma técnica de forma individual para a seleção de fornecedores verdes/sustentáveis.…”

A dynamic bi-objective closed-loop supply chain network design considering supplier selection and remanufacturer subcontractors

“…For example, Yazdani (2014) discussed on the fact that how the right suppliers can be selected when fuzzy MADM process is available. In this regard, he implemented analytical hierarchy process (AHP) (Yazdani, 2014) method to find the weights of the criteria and then ranked them using fuzzy TOPSIS method.…”

Integrated approach for sustainable product development using QFD and ANP

“…It has been used in variety of problems from tool selection (Ayag and Ozddemir, 2011), supplier selection (Chatterjee and Chakraborty, 2014;Yazdani, 2014), strategy evaluation of alternatives (Rao and Singh, 2012), location selection (Rao and Singh, 2012), robot selection (Bhattacharya et al, 2005;Rehman and Ahamri, 2013), product development (Soota et al, 2008;Soota, 2014), renewable and sustainable energy (Pohekar and Ramachandran, 2004), material handling equipment selection (Onut et al, 2009), curricular topic selection (Soota et al, 2009), etc. Integrating some of the recent applications with QFD include robot selection (Bhattacharya et al, 2005), robust QFD (Kim et al, 2007), weighted ANP approach for concept development (Zaim et al, 2014), collaborative product design and optimal selection of module mix (Wang and Chen, 2012), conjoint analysis for concept development (Chaudhuri and Bhattacharyya, 2009), product development methodology (Soota et al, 2011;Soota, 2014;Zaim et al, 2014), extensions of QFD (Mehrjerdi, 2010), etc.…”

“…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.…”