Analysing the vulnerability of green clothing supply chains in South and Southeast Asia using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Majumdar, Abhijit; Sinha, Sanjib; Shaw, Mahesh; Mathiyazhagan, K.

doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1708988

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“…The specific risks related to environmentally sustainable clothing supply chain like unavailability of green materials, demand uncertainty of green products, high investment and low return of green investment, etc. are a bit different from those of other supply chains ( Majumdar et al., 2021 ). Therefore, the generic risk mitigation strategies may not be very apt for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chain.…”

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“…The first two steps of risk management are risk identification and risk assessment. Supply chain risks can be related to demand, supply, operation, finance, business environment and information ( Samvedi et al., 2013 ; Majumdar et al., 2021 ). Green supplier failure, high cost of green materials and non-availability of green materials are some of the supply related risks whereas lack of demand, uncertainty of demand and key customer failure are some of the demand related risks ( Christopher and Peck, 2004 ; Wang et al., 2012 ; Aqlan and Lam, 2015 ).…”

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Prioritising risk mitigation strategies for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chains: Insights from selected organisational theories

Majumdar

Sinha

Govindan

2021

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Recent outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has provided strong impetus to supply chain resilience research. In a volatile and uncertain business environment, resilience can be incorporated by developing and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies. In this research, risk mitigation strategies for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chain have been prioritised by considering their efficacy to mitigate various risks. Twelve risks and thirteen mitigation strategies, identified through literature review and experts' opinion, are considered as decision criteria and alternatives respectively. Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solutions (fuzzy TOPSIS) is implemented under a group decision making scenario for prioritising the strategies. Developing supply chain agility; multiple green sourcing and flexible capacities; adoption of green practices; building trust, coordination and collaboration; and alignment of economic incentives and revenue sharing are found to be dominant risk mitigation strategies for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chain. These strategies have been viewed through the lens of resource dependence, change management and transaction cost theories. Organisation desirous to build resilience in their supply chain can prioritise the risk mitigation strategies and adopt a portfolio of strategies based on the outcome of this research.

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Prioritising risk mitigation strategies for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chains: Insights from selected organisational theories

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Sinha

Govindan

2021

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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“…AHP is commonly used to prioritise factors and select best alternatives (Subramanian and Ramanathan 2012). It has been proposed that AHP is an appropriate method to assess supplier sourcing decisions and risks along with other models such as Data Envelopment Analysis (Wu, Luo, and Olson 2014) and Fuzzy AHP (Majumdar et al 2020). AHP has proved valuable to managers who need to assess complex problems in the most rational, systematic and consistent way, without compromising any fundamental component of the decision-making process (Dong and Cooper 2016).…”

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Disturbances to the supply chains of high-value manufacturing firms: comparison of the perceptions of product managers and supply chain managers

Huq

Pawar

Subramanian

2020

International Journal of Production Research

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We draw on the literature to categorise the supply chain disturbances (risks and uncertainties) that affect high-value manufacturing (HVM) firms when adopting the following two sourcing strategies: (a) insourcing/nearshore outsourcing, and (b) outsourcing/offshoring. We build a hierarchy structure of disturbances, which was tested in a case study of a European HVM operating in the aerospace industry. A novelty of this study is the quantitative prioritisation and comparison, using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, of the disturbances reported by two groups of managers: three product managers (internally facing) and four supply chain managers (externally facing). Our findings show that managers' perceptions of firmrelated, network-related and location-related disturbances can be prejudiced by their functional boundaries. We show that both product and supply chain managers prefer the insource/nearshore outsource strategy, as they feel that the disturbances while outsourcing/offshoring are significantly greater and offset the benefits of low-cost production -a counterintuitive finding. Through in-depth interviews with both groups of managers, we found the mitigation strategies are reshoring, full consideration to the total cost of acquisition (including hidden costs of distant operations) and building clusters in emerging markets to support the firm's regional hub by partnering with its existing suppliers from developed countries.

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“…75) is needed for installing a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) with a capacity of 1,000 kL/day. Moreover, this investment rises by around 300% for a ZLD ETP which can recycle the water (Majumdar et al , 2020). Therefore, textile and clothing organisations, specially the smaller ones, are often reluctant to invest in ETP.…”

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Economic sustainability benchmarking of environmental initiatives: a case of wastewater treatment plant

Majumdar

Sinha

2021

BIJ

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PurposeIt has been long debated whether the three bottom lines of sustainability (economic, environmental and social) can be achieved simultaneously or whether achieving one adversely affects the others. This paper analyses the economic sustainability of an environmental initiative, namely, effluent treatment plant (ETP), adopted by an Indian textile industry.Design/methodology/approachTwo situations have been considered for the analysis. First, pure economic view with the operating and installed capacities has been considered. Second, combined economic-environmental view using shadow prices of undesirable outputs (biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, total phosphorous, etc.) has been analysed.FindingsIt has been found that when pure economic view is considered, the net present value (NPV) of the ETP with present operating capacity (10,200 kL/day) is negative, implying that it is not economically sustainable. However, if the ETP is operated with the full installed capacity (17,000 kL/day), it becomes economically sustainable except in the case of very high cost of capital (13%). Finally, when shadow prices of undesirable outputs are considered, the NPV becomes positive, bolstering the economic-environmental sustainability of ETP.Research limitations/implicationsIn future, multiple case studies should be conducted in similar organisations to extend the general applicability of the outcome of this study. This research considers the economic and environmental aspects of ETP. However, social benefits have not been considered in this research work, which can definitely be addressed in future endeavours.Practical implicationsThough very high capital investment of ETP acts as a barrier, the results of this study imply that the top management of textile and clothing organisations should look at it from the holistic economic-environmental viewpoint. The use of ETP also leads to social benefits by improving the health of local community and by reducing their hospitalisation, medical expenditure and absenteeism from school and workplace. The outcome of this research may enthuse the entrepreneurs to adopt environmental initiatives.Originality/valueThe paper provides a framework to evaluate the economic feasibility of ETP by considering the time value of money. It is demonstrated with a real case that the environmental initiatives can be economically rewarding.

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Analysing the vulnerability of green clothing supply chains in South and Southeast Asia using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

Cited by 52 publications

References 55 publications

Prioritising risk mitigation strategies for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chains: Insights from selected organisational theories

Prioritising risk mitigation strategies for environmentally sustainable clothing supply chains: Insights from selected organisational theories

Disturbances to the supply chains of high-value manufacturing firms: comparison of the perceptions of product managers and supply chain managers

Economic sustainability benchmarking of environmental initiatives: a case of wastewater treatment plant

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