Developing a resilient and sustainable non-linear closed-loop supply chain management framework for the automotive sector industry using a gaussian fuzzy optimization based non-linear model predictive control approach

Abstract

ABSTRACT Efforts to merge sustainability and resilience within the automotive industry’s supply chain models have proven challenging. This paper proposes a novel non-linear closed-loop supply chain management framework tailored to the tire industry supply chain from the automotive sector to address the issue of exploring interrelationships. Framework employs trapezoidal linguistic cubic fuzzy Z-score technique for order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution ranking approach to prioritize resilience strategies to maintain sustainability performance during sudden disturbances. Furthermore, Gaussian fuzzy optimization-based non-linear model predictive control acts as a feedback controller to integrate sustainability and resilience by providing a stable output based on the objective function related to sustainability dimensions. An experimental study assesses the impact of resilience strategies on total supply chain costs, highlighting significant cost savings. Adopting strategies like multiple sourcing, information sharing, and improved design quality of the supply chain keeps total expected costs optimal for various sustainability levels.