Evaluating solutions to overcome humanitarian supply chain management barriers: A hybrid fuzzy SWARA – Fuzzy WASPAS approach

Agarwal, Sachin; Kant, Ravi; Shankar, Ravi

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101838

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“…It is the most appropriate tool for making high-level decisions (Zavadskas et al 2018 ). The other related studies include (Singh and Modgil 2020 ; Prajapati et al 2019a , b ; Karuppiah et al 2021 ; Gupta and Soni 2021 ; Agarwal et al 2020 ), and many other researchers used the SWARA approach for the supply chain area. Experts play a critical part in the method’s measurement and calculation of weights and measures.…”

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Exploring factors of the sustainable supply chain in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: SWARA approach

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Zhu

Ali

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The present research aimed to provide a mechanism for enhancing sustainable supply chain survivability (SSCS) during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Logistical and manufacturing operations have been restricted due to the severe lockdown, which significantly impacts the demand and supply of various items. COVID-19 has a massive effect on a multitude of units of various sectors. This research emphasized the important elements that must be considered to adapt the sustainable supply chain (SSC) practices. As a result, businesses are now attempting to improve the system for SSC. The stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) approach is used in this research to classify dynamic aspects for improving SSC survival in an epidemic condition. The results reveal that the viability of the supply chain network is the essential criteria for managing the relationships of suppliers and buyers and maximizing SSCS during and after COVID-19. This research will help businesses, manufacturers, and other stakeholders to concentrate on the described factors to achieve a brighter environment.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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“…Gupta and Soni ( 2021 ) used the data of just 6 experts in their study. Finally, the study of Agarwal et al 2020 used the data of just 7 experts. Thus, compared with these recent studies, we used the data of 18 experts.…”

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Exploring factors of the sustainable supply chain in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: SWARA approach

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Zhu

Ali

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Mangla proposed 20 solutions to 29 obstacles faced by humanitarian supply chain management. These solutions include long-term strategic planning, coordination among actors, and logistics management [21]. Dubey used a structural equation model based on variance to conclude that information integration and collaboration positively impacted the agility of the humanitarian supply chain [40].…”

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“…Humanitarian supply chain resilience in flood events is a complex issue. Its formation is the result of a combination of pre-assessment [21], diverse actors [22], strategic management [23], responsiveness [24], risk management [25], and material support [26].…”

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Evaluation of Humanitarian Supply Chain Resilience in Flood Disaster

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Frequent natural hazards such as flooding and the devastating consequences of severe events make the humanitarian supply chain particularly important in alleviating the suffering of those communities impacted by such events. However, the ambiguity of information and the different goals of stakeholders demand that the humanitarian supply chain must be resilient. This research adopts the use of literature review and expert opinions to identify the indicators that affect the resilience of the humanitarian supply chain using the flood event in Hechuan District, China in 2020 as an example. Based on the combination of fuzzy Decision-making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory and Analytic Network Process (fuzzy-DEMATEL-ANP), the interrelationships between the indicators and the weights of each indicator are calculated. The research results indicate that decision-makers in the humanitarian supply chain should vigorously coordinate the cooperation among stakeholders, ensure the effective transmission of information, and formulate forward-looking strategic plans. At the same time, these key decision makers should also be aware of the need to adjust their strategies at different stages of the flooding event in order to achieve a flexible humanitarian supply chain that responds to the varying demands over the course of a flooding event. The results of this study will help professionals involved in humanitarian supply chains to develop strategies and plans to become more resilient thus helping to reduce losses from natural hazards such as floods.

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“…For organizations that seek longterm resilience of reverse supply chains, social and environmental concerns are considered sustainability factors [20][21][22]. Regarding methodologies, numerous evaluation models based on MCDM techniques for outsourcing 3PRLP have been introduced ranging from analytical hierarchy process (AHP) [23][24][25][26][27], fuzzy AHP [28,29], analytic network process (ANP) [30][31][32], fuzzy ANP [33], technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) [19,27,34,35], fuzzy TOPSIS [36], visekriterijumska optimizacija i kompromisno resenje (VIKOR) method [19,31,33,37], step-wise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) [38,39], quality function deployment (QFD) model [28,40], data envelopment analysis (DEA) [26,35,41,42], other MCDM methods [30][31][32][33][34]38,39,43], exact methods (mathematical programming) [26,37,[43][44][45], and...…”

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Outsourcing Reverse Logistics for E-Commerce Retailers: A Two-Stage Fuzzy Optimization Approach

Wang

Dang

Nguyen

2021

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On the heels of the online shopping boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, the electronic commerce (e-commerce) surge has many businesses facing an influx in product returns. Thus, relevant companies must implement robust reverse logistics strategies to reflect the increased importance of the capability. Reverse logistics also plays a radical role in any business’s sustainable development as a process of reusing, remanufacturing, and redistributing products. Within this context, outsourcing to a third-party reverse logistics provider (3PRLP) has been identified as one of the most important management strategies for today’s organizations, especially e-commerce players. The objective of this study is to develop a decision support system to assist businesses in the selection and evaluation of different 3PRLPs by a hybrid fuzzy multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. Relevant criteria concerning the economic, environmental, social, and risk factors are incorporated and taken into the models. For obtaining more scientific and accurate ranking results, linguistic terms are adopted to reduce fuzziness and uncertainties of criteria weights in the natural decision-making process. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is applied to measure the criteria’s relative significance over the evaluation process. The fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (FTOPSIS) is then used to rank the alternatives. The prescribed method was adopted for solving a case study on the 3PRLP selection for an online merchant in Vietnam. As a result, the most compatible 3PRLP was determined. The study also indicated that “lead time,” “customer’s voice,” “cost,” “delivery and service,” and “quality” are the most dominant drivers when selecting 3PLRLs. This study aims to provide a more complete and robust evaluation process to e-commerce businesses and any organization that deals with supply chain management in determining the optimized reverse logistics partners.

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Evaluating solutions to overcome humanitarian supply chain management barriers: A hybrid fuzzy SWARA – Fuzzy WASPAS approach

Cited by 97 publications

References 123 publications

Exploring factors of the sustainable supply chain in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: SWARA approach

Exploring factors of the sustainable supply chain in the post-COVID-19 pandemic: SWARA approach

Evaluation of Humanitarian Supply Chain Resilience in Flood Disaster

Outsourcing Reverse Logistics for E-Commerce Retailers: A Two-Stage Fuzzy Optimization Approach

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