Determinants of the Green Supplier Selection

Gurel, Ozlem; Acar, A. Zafer; Önden, İsmail; Gumus, Islam

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.874

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“…In today's business world, green supplier selection has a critical effect on the competitiveness of the entire supply chain network [1][2][3][4][5]. Presently, companies need to consider and include so-called 'green strategies' in order to prevent the negative impact of the industrial processes and also to optimally manage the physical and information flows exchanged between all actors in a supply chain [6]. On the other hand, a scattered model of conducting business and global competition force companies to consider the necessity for developing activities of proper selection and evaluation of beneficial supply chain partnerships.…”

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Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Konys

2019

Sustainability

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The supplier selection problem is one of the most important competitive challenges used by modern enterprises. Due to the fact that companies have to improve their practices in the management of a green supply chain that aims to respect green practices and technologies to increase sustainability, selecting the optimal green supplier is a challenging multi-dimensional problem. While most of the research has focused on the development and improvement of new methods, relatively limited attention has been paid to the identifying sets of criteria and capturing the domain knowledge. This issue is significant because a correctly identified set of criteria plays a vital role in supporting the decision-making process. The approach presented creates a gap between classical assumption of decision making and knowledge-based problem structuring. The current paper presents a methodological and practical background for capturing and handling knowledge about green supplier selection criteria, supported by a formal guideline for their appropriate acquisition. In addressing this research challenge, the aims of this paper are twofold: providing meta-analysis to reveal a collection of key data supported by a formal and trustworthy bibliometric analysis, and capturing knowledge in one place in the form of ontology for enabling selection and evaluation criteria of green suppliers is proposed. The proposed ontology is available for public use.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4208 2 of 41 issues related to business management and processes. In particular, the discovery and selection of knowledgeable suppliers has become a fundamental issue for global supply chain management.The choice of valuable suppliers ought to be focused on that type of partners that aim to respect green practices and technologies to increase sustainability. The assessment of the selection criteria does not only encompass the offered services and material quality, but also the supplier's opportunities for sustainable development, by adding individual green orientation to models of entrepreneurial intention to increase their explanatory power. Thus, a crucial key is to further establish the green policy of the company, especially with regard to supply chain management. There are many recent studies which focus on the green supplier selection issues, and there are also different approaches based on various methods, statistical models and artificial intelligence based models [9], data envelopment analysis [8], multi-criteria decision models/approaches [10], and cluster analysis, case-based reasoning systems [5]. With the large number of works oriented towards the development of methodological background in the green supplier selection process, little attention is paid to identifying and selecting the proper set of assessment criteria. Thus, the construction of models is based only on the knowledge of the experts/decision makers. [11][12][13][14]. It should be pointed that this process is very significant because a properly selected set of criteria determines the quality and c...

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Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

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2019

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“…Activities Others KPI (Key Performance Index) [71] Carbon Assessments and Footprinting [83] EU Directives and Guidelines, Recommendations, Accreditations, Certifications (ISO) [94] End of life Inventory Management [72] Packaging Assessments (Packaging Environmental Assessment Tool-PEAT [73] Green vendor selection [84] Engaging with Suppliers on Sustainability (TESS) [95] Eco-performance measuring [85,86] Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) [74] Environmental rules of suppliers selections [87] Executive opinion on environmental regulation [96] Life Cycle Costing (LCC) [75] Waste management [87] Demand for eco-innovative products [97] ESCOR [76,77] Remanufacturing [88] Environmentally Responsible Product Assessment (ERPA) [78] Financial support for eco-innovation from public programmers [89] Seed and start-up venture capital for eco-innovative firms (investment per 1000 GDP), [97] Material Flow Analysis(MFA) [79] Environmental Quality Function Deployment (EQFD) [80] Purity of recyclable materials recovered [90] Ratio of eco-start-ups to incumbents in the market [97] Sustainable Balanced scorecard [81] Eco cooperation's form [91] Emission from in/outbound logistics [97] VSM-Value stream mapping [82] Waste management costs (landfill tariff, etc.) [92] Emission from raw material sourcing, [97] Concentrations of hazardous materials in products and by-products [93] 'Green Tax' as a percentage of government budget [97] Share of eco-innovative firms as a percentage of all firms [97] Useful product operating life [97] Indicators (ba...…”

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The Selected Method and Tools for Performance Measurement in the Green Supply Chain—Survey Analysis in Poland

Tundys

Wiśniewski

2018

Sustainability

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The methods and tools for the performance measurement and evaluation of the green supply chain management are very important elements for the construction and function of this type of supply chain. The result is a presentation of the considerations underlying a very general model, which presents some selected tools, but no breakdown of individual industries. The considerations undertaken are important and have scientific added value as usually in practice, a very large number of tools are used to assess the supply chain, which are not always correlated or adapted to the specificity of the chain. It is worth pointing out which of the already used or completely new tools and methods will be most useful for assessing the green supply chain. The structure of the paper covers the theoretical and empirical. It includes an introduction, our goals and hypotheses, state of the art, methodology, empirical findings, and discussion. We present the definitional differences between green and sustainable supply chains and focus on the selection and identification of methods for the framework model for evaluating the green supply chain. In the next step, the theoretical and selected method and tools were compared to a survey of Poland. On the basis of the survey, we present the findings and discussions found in this area. The main methodology used includes a literature review, a survey analysis using a questionnaire and statistical tools. The survey was carried out in 2015 in sample organizations in Poland. The research results showed that organizations were aware of the environmental elements of measuring and assessing the supply chain from an environmental point of view, but their use depended on many factors: the area, size of the organization, or the industry. If certain boundary conditions are met and the organizations are aware of the essence of environmental aspects in the chain, then they are applying green measures to the supply chain. These findings provide a glimpse into the measurement system and show that organizations still have yet to understand the essence of green and sustainable performance measurement, the meaning of its application, and the benefits it brings. However, traditional measurement still plays a large role, so it is important to reflect on how to convince organizations to pay more attention to environmental aspects, while at the same time applying a green supply chain assessment model. These results are a framework in which to start building a green supply chain assessment model. The empirical research aimed to answer the question of whether theoretical and sustainable management tools have already played a role in perceiving and assessing the green supply chain.

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“…Hsu et al [25] established 13 criteria of carbon management with three dimensions (planning, implementation, and management). Gurel et al [26] proposed 8 main criteria, such as cost, delivery, quality, service, strategic alliance, and pollution control, and 30 subcriteria which consist of green and also nongreen criteria. Dobos and Vörösmarty [27] divided the criteria into two manners: the managerial and the green factors and used DEA-type composite criteria for green supplier selection.…”

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A Fuzzy‐Grey Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Green Supplier Selection in Low‐Carbon Supply Chain

Pang

Yang

et al. 2017

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Due to the increasing awareness of global warming and environmental protection, many practitioners and researchers have paid much attention to the low-carbon supply chain management in recent years. Green supplier selection is one of the most critical activities in the low-carbon supply chain management, so it is important to establish the comprehensive criteria and develop a method for green supplier selection in low-carbon supply chain. The paper proposes a fuzz-grey multicriteria decision making approach to deal with these problems. First, the paper establishes 4 main criteria and 22 subcriteria for green supplier selection. Then, a method integrating fuzzy set theory and grey relational analysis is proposed. It uses the membership function of normal distribution to compare each supplier and uses grey relation analysis to calculate the weight of each criterion and improves fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. The proposed method can make the localization of individual green supplier more objectively and more accurately in the same trade. Finally, a case study in the steel industry is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Determinants of the Green Supplier Selection

Cited by 87 publications

References 41 publications

Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Green Supplier Selection Criteria: From a Literature Review to a Comprehensive Knowledge Base

The Selected Method and Tools for Performance Measurement in the Green Supply Chain—Survey Analysis in Poland

A Fuzzy‐Grey Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Green Supplier Selection in Low‐Carbon Supply Chain

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