Supplier Selection Study under the Respective of Low-Carbon Supply Chain: A Hybrid Evaluation Model Based on FA-DEA-AHP

Logistics operations are energy-consuming and impact the environment negatively. Improving energy efficiency in logistics is crucial for environmental sustainability and can be achieved by increasing the utilisation of capacity. This paper takes an interactive approach to capacity utilisation, to contribute to sustainable freight transport and logistics, by identifying its causes and mitigations. From literature, a conceptual framework was developed to highlight different system levels in the logistics system, in which the energy efficiency improvement potential can be found and that are summarised in the categories activities, actors, and areas. Through semi-structured interviews with representatives of nine companies, empirical data was collected to validate the framework of the causes of the unutilised capacity and proposed mitigations. The results suggest that activities, such as inflexibilities and limited information sharing as well as actors' over-delivery of logistics services, incorrect price setting, and sales campaigns can cause unutilised capacity, and that problem areas include i.a. poor integration of reversed logistics and the last mile. The paper contributes by categorising causes of unutilised capacity and linking them to mitigations in a framework, providing a critical view towards fill rates, highlighting the need for a standardised approach to measure environmental impact that enables comparison between companies and underlining that costs are not an appropriate indicator for measuring environmental impact.

Section: Collabo-ration Between Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

Wehner

2018

“…Turki et al [8] highlight the optimization of a manufacturing-remanufacturing-transport-warehousing closed-loop supply chain and intend to evaluate the optimal capacities of manufacturing stock, purchasing warehouse and the vehicle, as well as the optimal value of returned used end-of-life products. He and Zhang [9] and Govindan et al [23] provided comprehensive literature reviews on the coopetition relationship in closed-loop supply chain management. As mentioned earlier, although numerous researchers have studied remanufacturing, to the best of our knowledge, none of the above literature has highlighted whether and how the economic performance and sustainability issues related to remanufacturing operations are affected by the retailer's service levels.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sustainability Analysis on Retailer’s Sales Effort in A Closed-Loop Supply Chain

Yang

Zhang

et al. 2018

With the development of the Internet, many brand name manufacturers including Apple, Lenovo, and Canon offer remanufactured products through their official website. Confronting the competition from remanufactured products that are available from the manufactured-owned channel, more and more retailers have recognized that customer service level is one of the most important performance metrics and have aggressively attempted to obtain larger market shares by providing high levels of post-sale services. Although numerous researchers have studied various competitive strategies in remanufacturing, to the best of our knowledge, there is little research highlighting whether and how economic performance and sustainability issues related to remanufacturing operations are affected by the retailer's service levels. In this paper, we fill this gap by developing two models for the closed-loop supply chain where all remanufactured products are available from the manufactured-owned channel, while the equilibrium behavior of the retailer can be characterized under two possible scenarios: (1) Confronting the cannibalization from direct channels where the retailer only responds on prices (i.e., Model P); or (2) on providing competitive prices and high service levels for new products (i.e., Model S). Our analysis suggests that, from managers' perspective, if the manufacturers care more about economic benefits, encouraging the retailer to provide higher levels of post-sale services is a beneficial strategy. If they are more concerned with environmental performance, Model P is preferred. However, from the angle of environmental groups and agencies, if the level of eco-centrism is too pronounced, though Model S has a greater profitability for both parties, a more significant welfare loss due to environmental hazard is perceived by the society. As a result, besides avoiding indulging in overproducing on new products, environmental groups and agencies should take emissions trading or taxation into consideration to stimulate remanufacturing operations.

“…AHP is the popular method in decision making, which only needs the decision makers to compare each pair of objects and provide their preference values. Since it was first introduced by Saaty [36], AHP has been applied in many fields [35,[37][38][39]. He and Zhang [38] proposed a model integrated factor analysis (FA), DEA, with AHP for supplier selection.…”

Section: Framework Of the Performance Evaluation Of The Semiconductormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since it was first introduced by Saaty [36], AHP has been applied in many fields [35,[37][38][39]. He and Zhang [38] proposed a model integrated factor analysis (FA), DEA, with AHP for supplier selection. Kim, Jeon, Cho and Kim [39] used the AHP to analyze the relative importance and performance of individual environmental management tasks in the hospital.…”

Section: Framework Of the Performance Evaluation Of The Semiconductormentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Assessment of Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry: A New Hybrid Model Using Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Two-Stage Additive Network Data Envelopment Analysis

Lin

2018

Sustainable development has become the biggest concern of the semiconductor industry, which plays a vital role not only in technology breakthroughs, but also by serving as an enabler for sustainability. This study combines Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and additive network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the sustainable performance which are derived from business growth stage and energy utilization stage through the parametric linear program. Meanwhile, this method makes up the disadvantage of the weighting technique used additive decomposition approach to the two-stage network and avoids biasing toward the second stage. The findings demonstrate that Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing sector has exhibited a steady increase in its overall trend of sustainability performance. According to the stage-level performance results, the performance of business growth is better than energy utilization. However, the changing trend of overall sustainability performance is through a steady increase from environmental efficiency and not from economic efficiency.