An Assessment of Decision-Making in Resilient and Sustainable Projects Between Literature and Practice

Abstract

Implementation of Resilient and Sustainable Green Supply Chain Management (RSGSCM) has been a quite challenging task in business as the global supply chain is facing an increased number of disruptions and multiple risks. Moreover, due to global warming, governments around the world are concerned with minimizing the carbon footprint and waste generation which eventually forces the firms to restructure their supply chain network from a social and ecological perspective. Over and above, the lack of proper assessment methodologies makes the implementation of RSGSCM even more challenging to confront the sudden disruption. Therefore, the significance of designing a supply chain network resilient to disruption and sustainable at the same time is of paramount importance to supply chain practitioners. Due to the paramount importance of making the supply chain (SC) resilient to disruptions and sustainable, this chapter identifies and assesses the risk factors and sub-factors. Also, risk prioritization is discussed to overcome the risk factors that will eventually help make the supply chain of any business resilient and increase the sustainability performance in disruptions. An integrated multi-criteria decision analysis approach has been used by combining the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method with intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) to explore the key challenges of the RSSCM.