Supplier selection for sustainable operations: A triple-bottom-line approach using a Bayesian framework

Sarkis, Joseph; Dhavale, Dileep G.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.11.007

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“…Bouherroub et al [22] developed an integrated approach for transposing sustainable development principles to supply chain modeling and applied it to a Canadian lumber industry case. In evaluating and selecting sustainable suppliers, Sarkis and Dhavale [39] took a triple-bottom-line approach based on a Bayesian framework and a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) simulation to rank and select suppliers using special selection objectives. Gopal and Thakkar [40] examined how sustainable supply chain practices are relevant, and helped to improve industry supply chain performance and found that social and environmental performances had a positive relationship with economic performance.…”

Section: Scm Sustainability Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As mentioned above, to the best of our knowledge, the only previous research that has referred to supply chain management assessment has been [21,23,36,39]; all other papers have tended to concentrate on supply chain design or planning. The first purpose of this paper is to define the sustainability assessment dimensions for the BOPP plastic film supply chain.…”

Section: Scm Sustainability Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Financial performance is a broad term that includes the costs and asset management in SCM, such as design costs, purchase costs, source costs, production costs, delivery costs, return costs, supply chain costs, cost variances from expected, standard or contracted costs and complementary assets, as well as return on investment [23,36,39,56,57].…”

Section: Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Quality is an important aspect of the client-vendor relationship [23,39,56]. Inferior quality affects the focal company's financial performance, as well as its reputation [39].…”

Section: Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

Jiang

2016

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Academics' and practitioners' interest in sustainable supply chain management has received great concern in recent years. The application of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) plastic film has had a significant influence on the economic, environmental and social performance of supply chain management. However, research on the integration of these three sustainable dimensions is still rare in this field. In this paper, we identify sustainability criteria based on a triple bottom line approach (economic benefit, environmental protection and social responsibility) from the supply chain perspective, develop a hybrid multi-criteria decision making framework to evaluate the criteria and select alternatives and apply the proposed approach to a real case study at a focal BOPP plastic film company in China. In the framework, a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) is used to determine the performance criteria weights and a fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) is applied to rank the alternatives. The case study finds that the economic dimension was the most important aspect with environmental second and social third. The results also verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework. This paper develops an effective and systematic approach for decision makers to conduct evaluations and select optimal alternatives for focal plastic film companies.

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Section: Scm Sustainability Dimensionsmentioning

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Section: Scm Sustainability Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Quality is an important aspect of the client-vendor relationship [23,39,56]. Inferior quality affects the focal company's financial performance, as well as its reputation [39].…”

Section: Economic Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

Jiang

2016

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“…Green supplier selection is a challenging multi-dimensional issue in the competitive environment [8,9], which can be resolved by multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. The QUALIFLEX (qualitative flexible multiple criteria method) [10] is an efficient outranking MCDM method that assesses all possible rankings of considered alternatives and finds the optimum one by using the maximum concordance/discordance index.…”

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Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection Using Cloud Model Theory and the QUALIFLEX Method

Wang

Liu

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Nowadays, companies have to improve their practices in the management of green supply chain with increased awareness of environmental issues worldwide. Selecting the optimum green supplier is crucial for green supply chain management, which is a challenging multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Moreover, while evaluating the performance of alternative suppliers, decision makers tend to determine their assessments using linguistic descriptors due to experts' vague knowledge and information deficiency. Therefore, this paper develops an integrated MCDM model based on the cloud model and QUALIFLEX (qualitative flexible multiple criteria method) approach to assess the green performance of companies under economic and environmental criteria. For the introduced model, the linguistic terms, expressed in normal clouds, are utilized to assess alternatives against each selection criterion. A linear programming model is established to compute the weights of criteria with unknown or incompletely known weight information. An extended QUALIFLEX approach is proposed and used to select the most suitable green supplier. Finally, the proposed green supplier selection method is demonstrated by an empirical example of an auto manufacturer to confirm its rationality and effectiveness.

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Supplier evaluation in the context of circular economy: A forward step for resilient business and environment concern

Haleem

Khan

Luthra³

et al. 2021

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Resource depletion is a concern for the global economy; many think that available resources on the planet will not be able to cater to an ever-growing population. Thus, economies are trying to become circular, leaving behind the linear tradition linear approach. In the circular economy (CE), physical resources and energy are made to loop back into the supply chain (SC) for a more extended period. Proper selection of suppliers is an essential criterion towards proper execution of the CE principle in SC. In this research, we have constructed a framework for evaluating the supplier concerning the CE implementation. Further, this research identifies the criterion and sub-criterion, which are pertinent for evaluating the supplier in CE context. Fuzzybased 'Criteria Importance Through Inter-Criteria Correlation (CRITIC)' method is justifiably applied to determine the aggregated weights of the criteria. Finally, 'Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS)' method is used to determine the suppliers' ranking in the Indian automobile industry. Six criteria and 24 sub-criteria are obtained as per recent literature and then inputs from experts. 'Environment' criterion came out as the most favourable criterion with a subjective weight of 0.230. The current research is one of the first such attempts to provide criteria for supplier selection in a CE environment. The developed framework would help organisations in implementing CE-based supplier selection. The identified criteria and sub-criteria would provide organisations with means to evaluate suppliers and help suppliers develop an effective and efficient CE based on the SC.

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Supplier selection for sustainable operations: A triple-bottom-line approach using a Bayesian framework

Cited by 236 publications

References 28 publications

A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

A Sustainable Performance Assessment Framework for Plastic Film Supply Chain Management from a Chinese Perspective

Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection Using Cloud Model Theory and the QUALIFLEX Method

Supplier evaluation in the context of circular economy: A forward step for resilient business and environment concern

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