Evaluation and selection of an effective green supply chain management strategy: A case study

Abstract

This study describes the application of Fuzzy-AHP for evaluating and selecting an effective green supply chain management strategy in a cement manufacturing industry. As a multi-criteria decision analysis, five decision criteria were considered in the order of their priority to the cement manufacturing industry to evaluate four green supply chain management strategies. This method is used in such a way that the top management of the industry and other experts considered carefully which type of green management perceptive they had, and assessed the importance of each activity objectively to develop the pairwise comparisons, and the result was used in the hierarchy prioritization of criteria and later expressed in fuzzy number with triangular membership function. This method is applied at two levels: the first is finding the fuzzy weights for the decision criteria, while the second is finding the fuzzy weights for the strategies under each of the decision criteria. Fuzzy scores for the strategies were obtained.

An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Group Decision-Making to Measure the Performance of Green Supply Chain Management with TOPSIS Method

“…Mathiyazhagan et al [16] examined the pressures for GSCM adoption via AHP. References [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] have built AHP and fuzzy AHP models for the evaluation of different GSCM practices. As seen, despite the fact that studies which applied on AHP models are mostly in the majority, in the green supply chain literature, GSCM practices can be often investigated differently by many different multi-criteria decision-making techniques such as TOPSIS, VIKOR, DEMATEL among researchers.…”

Mediation analysis of environmental training: Perceived stakeholder pressure and environmental supply chain management practices

“…in addition to this, suggests that firms cooperate actively with the customers with customer and regulatory pressure for eco-design and green manufacturing respectively. For internal management practices such as waste reduction and recycling government regulations are important (Zhu, Tian, & Sarkis, 2012;Odeyale et al, 2013).…”

“…After the 1994 Surgical Instrument Manufacturing Association (SIMA) made exclusive agreement with the FDA to provide training to their local producers to upgrade their good manufacturing practices standards (GMP standards USA) with the help of financial aid form government. Research into the environmental supply chain management practices are popular among the developed countries (Laosirihongthong, Adebanjo, Tan, & Choon Tan, 2013;Odeyale, Oguntola, & Odeyale, 2013). Little empirical evidence is available on better implementation of environmental practices throughout the supply chain sustainability from Asian perspective (Arlbjørn & Lüthje, 2012;Mitra & Datta, 2014).…”

Performance appraisal for green/environmental friendliness of a supply chain department

“…The decision criteria used for the evaluation of green supply chain management based on different sections of industrial operation are listed below and briefly explained (Odeyale et al, 2013). …”

“…Other environmental friendly supply chain processes are green procurement, green design, environmental management and green marketing. (Odeyale, Alamu & Odeyale, 2013).…”