A Review of Sustainable Supplier Selection with Decision-Making Methods from 2018 to 2022

Abstract

Sustainable supplier selection (SSS) is an essential part of the decision-making process in sustainable supply chains. Numerous research studies have been conducted using various decision-making methods to attend to this research-worthy issue. This literature review presents a comprehensive SSS analysis focusing on social, economic, and environmental aspects. The present study spans five years (2018–2022) and considers 101 papers. It provides a detailed breakdown of the papers based on their dates of publication, the countries of the writers, application fields, and journals, and it categorizes them based on their approaches. In addition, this review examines the use of single- or hybrid-form methodologies in the papers reviewed. It also identifies that the TOPSIS, AHP, VIKOR, BWM, DEA, DEMATEL, and MULTIMOORA methods and their extensions are the most frequently used methods in SSS studies. It is concluded that hybrid approaches and their rough, grey, and fuzzy extensions are used to solve real-world problems. However, state-of-the-art mathematical tools, such as soft sets and their hybrid versions with fuzzy sets, have not been utilized in SSS studies. Therefore, this study inspires and encourages the use of such tools in SSS research.

Navigating Supply Chain Resilience: A Hybrid Approach to Agri-Food Supplier Selection

“…According to the data presented in Table 2, AHP was the predominant approach utilized in the food industry throughout this decade for supplier selection. Additionally, TOPSIS was adopted as a hybrid method when combined with other techniques, which is in agreement with the investigation carried out by [95], which discovered that over five years (2018-2023), the methods TOPSIS, AHP, VIKOR, BWM, DEA, DEMATEL, and MULTIMOORA, as well as their extensions, were the most commonly used in sustainable supplier selection in general business.…”

“…Each MCDM model has unique properties, and no MCDM method is completely superior to the others. According to Karakoc et al [95], the most often used techniques for sustainable supplier selection over five years (2018-2022) were TOPSIS, AHP, VIKOR, BWM, DEA, DEMATEL, and MULTIMOORA, together with their extensions. It has been discovered that very few studies have proposed a solution framework or utilized MCDM methodologies to address the agri-food supplier selection problem.…”

Analysing the Barriers of Strategic Entrepreneurship: A DEMATEL Approach

“…The interactions between barriers may be transformed using this method into a structural model of the entire system that can be divided into groups based on causes and effects. DEMATEL has been applied in the following areas: supply chain management traceability management [50], circular economy management [51], food supply chain management [52], tourism entrepreneurship [28], supplier selection [53], sustainable production [54], traceability adoption [50], innovation strategy development [55], circular economy [51], and remanufacturing [31].…”