An integrated, multi-criteria approach based on environmental, economic, social, and competency criteria for supplier selection

Abstract

Supplier selection (SS), which is a critical stage of supply chain management (SCM), is no longer evaluated solely from the perspective of traditional criteria, due to increasing environmental problems and ethical concerns. In this study, a multidimensional approach including environmental, economic, social, and competency concepts was proposed to evaluate SS, and an integrated approach based on Best Worst Method (BWM) and fuzzy TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of Interactive and Multi-criteria Decision Making) techniques was developed. In the developed approach, BWM was used to first obtain the importance level of the criteria and then to rank the suppliers with fuzzy TODIM. The proposed approach was tested on an automotive company in Turkey. The outcomes of the analysis revealed that the most important main criteria for SS are economic (0.377) and environmental criteria (0.290). In addition, the sub-criteria with the highest criteria weight were listed as product cost (0.120), on-time delivery (0.112), quality control (0.094), logistics costs (0.069), management commitment (0.054), and flexibility (0.054). The results of this study offer theoretical and practical outputs to companies that want to improve their SS process, selection of suppliers, and contributions of the researchers working on the topic.

Özel Bir Hastanenin Yer Seçimi için Bulanık COPRAS Tekniğinin Uygulanması

“…ÇKKV problemleri doğaları karmaşık ve zor bir süreçten oluşmaktadır [23]. Kurulacak potansiyel bir hastane yerinin seçimi de değerlendirilecek pek çok kriteri bünyesinde barındıran bir ÇKKV problemidir.…”

Turi̇zm Sektöründe Yöneti̇ci̇ Seçi̇mi̇ne Yöneli̇k Çok Kri̇terli̇ Bi̇r Yaklaşim

“…Doğru bir yöneticinin seçilmesi firmanın kalite seviyesini yükseltecektir. Artan kalite seviyesi firmalara rekabet avantajı kazandırmaktadır (Baki, 2021). Ayrıca turizm yöneticilerinin yönetim için gerekli olan genel gereksinimlere ek olarak bazı özellikler taşımaları gerektiği görülmektedir.…”

“…Bütün alternatiflerin ortalama (𝑆 𝑖 ) ve en kötü skorları (𝑅 𝑖 ) Eşitlik(7) ve Eşitlik(8) aracılığıyla hesaplanır. Eşitliklerdeki w değeri kriter ağırlıklarını belirtmektedir.…”

A multi-criteria decision-making framework for electric vehicle supplier selection of government agencies and public bodies in China

“…MCDM has proved its capability and robustness in evaluation or selection decision-making problems, including sustainability performance assessment (Niu et al 2018;Wu et al 2019a), site selection (Li et al 2020;Zhang et al 2019a) and SS (Ambrin et al 2021;Baki 2021). With respect to SS, different methods have been adopted.…”