scholarly journals Integration of sustainability aspects in the supplier selection process: a case study from a German electronics firm

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Rubén Medina Serrano ◽  
Wanja Wellbrock ◽  
María Reyes González Ramirez ◽  
José Luis Gascó
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Supplier Selection

The supplier selection process has become an important area of research and professional activity, and it is fundamental to understand the types and trends of research in this field. The appropriate supplier selection decision is a fundamental strategic process and plays an important role in supply chain management. In the last decade, academic research on sustainability has evolved rapidly in the supply chain literature. However, there has been scant opportunity for the research community to complete a global assessment of sustainable supplier selection activities to date. This paper seeks to address this need by exploring sustainability in supply chain management, developing a sustainable supplier selection framework with a tool for its operationalization to help managers evaluate supplier selection decisions. Our proposed model is based on the TOPSIS concept as a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) model and is validated through a case study. This research work follows the best-in-class approach to comply with all applicable environmental regulations and laws in the supplier selection process.

scholarly journals Going Green Supply Chain Management During COVID-19, Assessing the Best Supplier Selection Criteria: A Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Approach

2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Maryam Khokhar ◽  
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Wasim Iqbal ◽  
Yumei Hou ◽  
Muhammad Irshad
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Fuzzy Numbers ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Supplier Selection

In the past ten years, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) attach great importance due to consumers, for-profit and profitless organizations, laws and regulations to the social and corporate responsibilities of consumers, so it has been recognized by practitioners and scholars. Supplier selection, environmental effect like a lockdown, and social cooperation and other SSCM programs can play an important part in realizing the triple bottom line (TBL) of economic, environmental, social assistances. In supply chain management (SCM), the sustainable supplier selection (SSS) and firm performance plays an important role. Traditionally, when evaluating SSS performance, organizations will consider a new framework to obtain the overall criteria/sub-criteria of the sustainability index by encapsulating sustainability. In this paper 12 sub-criteria for 3 pillars of sustainability as economic, environment and social performance is collected. Although there are many articles on SSS and evaluation, so far, research on sustainability issues is very limited. This study endeavours to propose a fuzzy multi-criteria approach to discuss SSCM planning, and studies the issue of determining a current model for SSS in the supply chain during COVID-19 based on the TBL method. For express the linguistic value of the subjective preference of experts we use triangular fuzzy numbers. By using fuzzy numbers to find standard weights for qualitative performance evaluation, then fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is proposed to find the ranking of SSS. However, COVID-19 has a negative role in SSS and in firm performance. The situation of lockdown due to COVID-19 has a negative effect on the performance of the organizations. An example is given of the proposed method.

Green sourcing in the era of industry 4.0: towards green and digitalized competitive advantages

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Fallahpour ◽  
Morteza Yazdani ◽  
Ahmed Mohammed ◽  
Kuan Yew Wong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Operational Efficiency ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Way

PurposeIn the last decade, sustainable sourcing decision has gained tremendous attention due to the increasing governmental restrictions and public attentiveness. This decision involves diverse sets of classical and environmental parameters, which are originated from a complex, ambiguous and inconsistent decision-making environment. Arguably, supply chain management is fronting the next industrial revolution, which is named industry 4.0, due to the fast advance of digitalization. Considering the latter's rapid growth, current supplier selection models are, or it will, inefficient to assign the level of priority of each supplier among a set of suppliers, and therefore, more advanced models merging “recipes” of sustainability and industry 4.0 ingenuities are required. Yet, no research work found towards a digitalized, along with sustainability's target, sourcing.Design/methodology/approachA new framework for green and digitalized sourcing is developed. Thereafter, a hybrid decision-making approach is developed that utilizes (1) fuzzy preference programming (FPP) to decide the importance of one supplier attribute over another and (2) multi-objective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis (MOORA) to prioritize suppliers based on fuzzy performance rating. The proposed approach is implemented in consultation with the procurement department of a food processing company willing to develop a greener supply chain in the era of industry 4.0.FindingsThe proposed approach is capable to recognize the most important evaluation criteria, explain the ambiguity of experts' expressions and having better discrimination power to assess suppliers on operational efficiency and environmental and digitalization criteria, and henceforth enhances the quality of the sourcing process. Sensitivity analysis is performed to help managers for model approval. Moreover, this work presents the first attempt towards green and digitalized supplier selection. It paves the way towards further development in the modelling and optimization of sourcing in the era of industry 4.0.Originality/valueCompetitive supply chain management needs efficient purchasing and production activities since they represent its core, and this arises the necessity for a strategic adaptation and alignment with the requirement of industry 4.0. The latter implies alterations in the avenue firms operate and shape their activities and processes. In the context of supplier selection, this would involve the way supplier assessed and selected. This work is originally initiated based on a joint collaboration with a food company. A hybrid decision-making approach is proposed to evaluate and select suppliers considering operational efficiency, environmental criteria and digitalization initiatives towards digitalized and green supplier selection (DG-SS). To this end, supply chain management in the era of sustainability and digitalization are discussed.

scholarly journals Supplier selection in supply chain management: AHP approach. A case study in the PVM company’s carton supplier selection

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Duc Nguyen ◽  
Luong Phuoc Le ◽  
Lan Hoang Le
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Export Market ◽  
Quality Cost ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Expert Choice ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Delivery Reliability

This study aims to: (1) summarize the criteria for selecting suppliers in the supply chain management from literature review and apply of the found criteria to construct the criteria for selecting carton suppliers for PVM Company expanding export market, and (2) analyze and comparethe strategy offinding the new supplier or developing the existing supplier. The in-depth interviews with experts in supply chain management and AHP approach with the support of the Expert Choice software are used for data collection, data processing, evaluating and selecting supplier alternatives. The results show that there are 6 main significantcriteria in choosing carton suppliers for the PVM Company including: quality, cost, delivery, reliability, financial, service. Also, by this study, there are two suppliers, such as, BH Companyand TA Company. Finally, the analytical results suggest PVM Companyshould choose the BH Company as carton supplier for the PVM Company’s export market development.

scholarly journals Supplier Selection by Using a Fuzzy Integrated Model for a Textile Company

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 579-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alptekin ULUTAŞ
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Fuzzy Model ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Grey Theory ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Fuzzy Mcdm ◽  
Supplier Selection Problem

Supply chain management determining the competitive position of corporations in a rival and fast-changing environment is one of the favourite topics in engineering economics. Since the performance of suppliers affects the performance of the whole supply chain, the selection of a supplier is a significant problem in supply chain management. When solving a supplier selection problem, there are many criteria needed to be considered. Therefore, the supplier selection problem is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. In the supplier selection process, most of the time, expert data is involved, and the judgement of experts includes ambiguous, imprecise and uncertain data. Thus, there are many methods to solve supplier selection issues by utilising fuzzy set theory, grey theory and rough theory to handle vagueness of a problem. This study also proposes a fuzzy model to solve this problem. In this study, an integrated fuzzy MCDM model including the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and the Fuzzy Operational Competitiveness RAting (Fuzzy OCRA) will be proposed to solve supplier selection problem for a Turkish textile company. The FAHP is utilised to determine the weights of considered eight criteria and the fuzzy OCRA is used to rank five fabric suppliers concerning their performances on eight measures. This study is original and it contributes to the literature in two ways: first, this study proposes a fuzzy extension of the OCRA method and second, this study offers a new integrated fuzzy MCDM model consisting of the FAHP and the Fuzzy OCRA. By using a real case study of supplier selection problem, it is attempted to indicate the applicability of the new integrated fuzzy MCDM model for actual circumstances.

scholarly journals Sustainable Supplier Performance Evaluation and Selection with Neofuzzy TOPSIS Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Chaharsooghi ◽  
Mehdi Ashrafi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Selection Problem ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Supplier Performance ◽  
Sustainable Supplier Selection ◽  
Supplier Selection Problem

Supplier selection plays an important role in the supply chain management and traditional criteria such as price, quality, and flexibility are considered for supplier performance evaluation in researches. In recent years sustainability has received more attention in the supply chain management literature with triple bottom line (TBL) describing the sustainability in supply chain management with social, environmental, and economic initiatives. This paper explores sustainability in supply chain management and examines the problem of identifying a new model for supplier selection based on extended model of TBL approach in supply chain by presenting fuzzy multicriteria method. Linguistic values of experts’ subjective preferences are expressed with fuzzy numbers and Neofuzzy TOPSIS is proposed for finding the best solution of supplier selection problem. Numerical results show that the proposed model is efficient for integrating sustainability in supplier selection problem. The importance of using complimentary aspects of sustainability and Neofuzzy TOPSIS concept in sustainable supplier selection process is shown with sensitivity analysis.

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