Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Firm's Green Supply Chain Management under Uncertainty

Abstract

Evaluation of the implementation and performance of a firm's green supply chain management (GSCM) is an ongoing process. Balanced scorecard is a multi-criteria evaluation concept that highlights implementation and performance measures. The literature on the framework is abundant literature but scarce on how to build a hierarchical framework under uncertainty with dependence relations. Hence, this study proposes a hybrid approach, which includes applied interpretive structural modeling to build a hierarchical structure and uses the analytic network process to analyze the dependence relations. Additionally, this study applies the fuzzy set theory to determine linguistic preferences. Twenty dependence criteria are evaluated for a GSCM implemented firm in Taiwan. The result shows that the financial aspect and life cycle assessment are the most important performance and weighted criteria.

Controllable lead time, service level constraint, and transportation discounts in a continuous review inventory model

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Balanced Scorecard for evaluating the performance of supply chains: a bibliometric study

“…This result corroborates the statements of Callado and Jack (2015), which state that use the BSC to evaluate supply chain performance has some limitations, such as approach top-down, the absence of a formal methodology for implementation, and subjectivity of the selection of metrics. The increasing use of quantitative techniques suggests that improvement gaps identified in various papers developed on the topic are being properly exploited (Agami et al, 2012;De Felice et al, 2015;Lin et al, 2014;Naini et al, 2011;Piotrowicz and Cuthbertson, 2015;Shafiee et al, 2014;Sharma and Bhagwat, 2007).…”

Decision analysis in referrals of children and adolescent victims of violence: An ANP approach

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