Abstract
One of the most significant competitive strategies for organizations is sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). The vital part in the administration of a sustainable supply chain is the sustainable supplier selection, which is a multi-criteria decision-making issue, including many conflicting criteria. The valuation and selection of sustainable suppliers are difficult problems due to vague, inconsistent and imprecise knowledge of decision makers. In the literature on supply chain management for measuring green performance, the requirement for methodological analysis of how sustainable variables affect each other, and how to consider vague, imprecise and inconsistent knowledge, is still unresolved. This research provides an incorporated multi-criteria decision-making procedure for sustainable supplier selection problems (SSSPs). An integrated framework is presented via interval-valued neutrosophic sets to deal with vague, imprecise and inconsistent information that exists usually in real world. The analytic network process (ANP) is employed to calculate weights of selected criteria by considering their interdependencies. For ranking alternatives and avoiding additional comparisons of analytic network processes, the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is used. The proposed framework is turned to account for analyzing and selecting the optimal supplier. An actual case study of a dairy company in Egypt is examined within the proposed framework. Comparison with other existing methods is implemented to confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.
Highlights
The major priority for decision makers and managers in many fields such as agriculture, tourism, business development or manufacturing is the management of environmental and social issues, and the emergency to address them with the economic factors [1]
The analytic network process (ANP) is a development of analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and it was advanced by Saaty in 1996 for considering dependency and feedback among decision-making problem’s elements
The proposed proposed framework frameworkhas hasbeen beenapplied applied a real sustainable supplier selection problem, the results are analyzed
Summary
The sustainability is the synthesis of social, environmental and economic development [2]. The sustainability applies to all pertinent supply chain sides in supply chain management [3]. In sustainable supply chain management, managers seek to enhance the economic realization of their organization to survive, and to succeed in close and distant future. The social and environmental activities that can enhance economic goals of organizations should be undertaken by managers in sustainable supply chain management [4]. The most important part in sustainable supply chain management is to construct and implement an effective and efficient supplier section process [5]. The supplier selection problems, combining social and environmental factors for estimating and ranking suppliers to select the best, can be regarded as a sustainable supplier
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