scholarly journals Green Supplier Selection in New Era for Sustainability: A Novel Method for Integrating Big Data Analytics and a Hybrid Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Author(s):  
Abdullah YILDIZBASI ◽  
Yağmur ARIOZ

Abstract Environmentally conscious supplier selection has become increasingly important in recent years. Green supplier selection is one of the vital decisions of supply chain management, as it is preferred for businesses in the market that adopt an environmental approach and green philosophy in line with material and moral benefits. In this context, the problem of choosing the most efficient green supplier is addressed with a three-step methodology using big data analysis that includes an integrated approach and hybrid fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS techniques. First of all, big data plays an important role in delivering meaningful results by reducing complexity to a more fundamental level. It is possible to obtain more consistent results by examining a series of criteria in green supplier selection at a more reasonable and operational level. Thus, the role of big data analysis provides an input for decision-making, which enables a systematic reduction to more concise data. Then, these inputs are evaluated in a fuzzy environment with hybrid MCDM techniques and the most efficient green supplier is determined among the suppliers. This authentic study sheds light on providing a significant competitive advantage to businesses in line with their strategic targets as well as having environmental contributions to sustainability.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Rakhmat Purnomo ◽  
Wowon Priatna ◽  
Tri Dharma Putra

The dynamics of higher education are changing and emphasize the need to adapt quickly. Higher education is under the supervision of accreditation agencies, governments and other stakeholders to seek new ways to improve and monitor student success and other institutional policies. Many agencies fail to make efficient use of the large amounts of available data. With the use of big data analytics in higher education, it can be obtained more insight into students, academics, and the process in higher education so that it supports predictive analysis and improves decision making. The purpose of this research is to implement big data analytical to increase the decision making of the competent party. This research begins with the identification of process data based on analytical learning, academic and process in the campus environment. The data used in this study is a public dataset from UCI machine learning, from the 33 available varibales, 4 varibales are used to measure student performance. Big data analysis in this study uses spark apace as a library to operate pyspark so that python can process big data analysis. The data already in the master slave is grouped using k-mean clustering to get the best performing student group. The results of this study succeeded in grouping students into 5 clusters, cluster 1 including the best student performance and cluster 5 including the lowest student performance


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu

Background: Over the years, big data analytics has been statically carried out in a programmed way, which does not allow for translation of data sets from a subjective perspective. This approach affects an understanding of why and how data sets manifest themselves into various forms in the way that they do. This has a negative impact on the accuracy, redundancy and usefulness of data sets, which in turn affects the value of operations and the competitive effectiveness of an organisation. Also, the current single approach lacks a detailed examination of data sets, which big data deserve in order to improve purposefulness and usefulness.Objective: The purpose of this study was to propose a multilevel approach to big data analysis. This includes examining how a sociotechnical theory, the actor network theory (ANT), can be complementarily used with analytic tools for big data analysis.Method: In the study, the qualitative methods were employed from the interpretivist approach perspective.Results: From the findings, a framework that offers big data analytics at two levels, micro- (strategic) and macro- (operational) levels, was developed. Based on the framework, a model was developed, which can be used to guide the analysis of heterogeneous data sets that exist within networks.Conclusion: The multilevel approach ensures a fully detailed analysis, which is intended to increase accuracy, reduce redundancy and put the manipulation and manifestation of data sets into perspectives for improved organisations’ competitiveness.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatao Wang ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Hongxin Yu ◽  
Huaxia Shen ◽  
Yuanjun Zhao

PurposeBased on the typical service supply chain (SSC) structure, the authors construct the model of e-tailing SSC to explore the coordination relationship in the supply chain, and big data analysis provides realistic possibilities for the creation of coordination mechanisms.Design/methodology/approachAt the present stage, the e-commerce companies have not yet established a mature SSC system and have not achieved good synergy with other members of the supply chain, the shortage of goods and the greater pressure of express logistics companies coexist. In the case of uncertain online shopping market demand, the authors employ newsboy model, applied in the operations research, to analyze the synergistic mechanism of SSC model.FindingsBy analyzing the e-tailing SSC coordination mechanism and adjusting relevant parameters, the authors find that the synergy mechanism can be implemented and optimized. Through numerical example analysis, the authors confirmed the feasibility of the above analysis.Originality/valueBig data analysis provides a kind of reality for the establishment of online SSC coordination mechanism. The establishment of an online supply chain coordination mechanism can effectively promote the efficient allocation of supplies and better meet consumers' needs.


Web Services ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1301-1329
Author(s):  
Suren Behari ◽  
Aileen Cater-Steel ◽  
Jeffrey Soar

The chapter discusses how Financial Services organizations can take advantage of Big Data analysis for disruptive innovation through examination of a case study in the financial services industry. Popular tools for Big Data Analysis are discussed and the challenges of big data are explored as well as how these challenges can be met. The work of Hayes-Roth in Valued Information at the Right Time (VIRT) and how it applies to the case study is examined. Boyd's model of Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) is explained in relation to disruptive innovation in financial services. Future trends in big data analysis in the financial services domain are explored.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli

In today's fiercely competitive environment, most companies face the pressure of shorter product life cycles. Therefore, if companies want to maintain a competitive advantage in the market, they need to keep innovating and developing new products. If not, then they will face difficulties in developing and expanding markets and may go out of business. New product development is the key content of enterprise research and development, and it is also one of the strategic cores for enterprise survival and development. The success of new product development plays a decisive role both in the development of the company and in maintaining a competitive advantage in the industry. Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the continuous innovation and development of Internet technology, the era of big data has arrived. In the era of big data, enterprises' decision-making for new product development no longer solely relies on the experience of decision-makers; it is based on the results of big data analysis for more accurate and effective decisions. In this thesis, the case analysis is mainly carried out with Company A as an example. Also, it mainly introduces the decision made by Company A in the actual operation of new product development, which is based on the results of big data analysis from decision-making to decision-making innovation. The choice of decision-making is described in detail. Through the introduction of the case, the impact of big data on the decision-making process for new product development was explored. In the era of big data, it provides a new theoretical approach to new product development decision-making.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 981-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Strang ◽  
Zhaohao Sun

The goal of the study was to identify big data analysis issues that can impact empirical research in the healthcare industry. To accomplish that the author analyzed big data related keywords from a literature review of peer reviewed journal articles published since 2011. Topics, methods and techniques were summarized along with strengths and weaknesses. A panel of subject matter experts was interviewed to validate the intermediate results and synthesize the key problems that would likely impact researchers conducting quantitative big data analysis in healthcare studies. The systems thinking action research method was applied to identify and describe the hidden issues. The findings were similar to the extant literature but three hidden fatal issues were detected. Methodical and statistical control solutions were proposed to overcome the three fatal healthcare big data analysis issues.


2014 ◽  
Vol 484-485 ◽  
pp. 922-926
Author(s):  
Xiang Ju Liu

This paper introduces the operational characteristics of the era of big data and the current era of big data challenges, and exhaustive research and design of big data analytics platform based on cloud computing, including big data analytics platform architecture system, big data analytics platform software architecture , big data analytics platform network architecture big data analysis platform unified program features and so on. The paper also analyzes the cloud computing platform for big data analysis program unified competitive advantage and development of business telecom operators play a certain role in the future.


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