Resilient-Sustainable Supplier Selection Considering Health-Safety- Environment Performance Indices: A Case Study in Automobile Industry

Abstract

Occupational safety and health are important aspect of social dimension of sustainability in the concept of sustainable supply chain. along with the environmental dimension of sustainability, helps organizations integrated approach to health, safety and environment management to move towards sustainable development. Resilience Engineering is a new approach of safety management and an inherent ability of an organization to regulate its functions before or during disruptions, enabling it to continue operating in times of crisis or constant stress. This paper presents an integrated framework for evaluating, ranking and selecting top suppliers in terms of resilience, greenness and occupational safety and health issues. The framework is based on using expert panel meetings and Delphi method to define the criteria, and content validity ratio to measure validity of the designed framework. Besides, two Multi-Criteria Decision Methods namely the Best-Worst Method and Multi-Attributive Border Approximation Area Comparison were used to weight the criteria and ranking the suppliers. The case study to apply the designed framework is the automotive industry with focus on the suppliers of one of the biggest Automotive Companies in Iran. The results showed the criteria management commitment demonstrated the highest weight and among the indicators, adequate budget allocation for HSE actions, risk awareness, management systems and control measures for risks ranked one to four, respectively. Finally, using the designed model and conducting an audit of the studied companies, the final ranking of four suppliers was done and suggestions were made to improve the performance of the companies.