Abstract
In recent years, sustainability has been a major focus of fashion business operations because fashion industry development causes harmful effects to the environment, both indirectly and directly. The sustainability of the fashion industry is generally based on several levels and this study focuses on investigating the optimal supplier selection problem for sustainable materials supply in fashion clothing production. Following the ground rule that sustainable development is based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), this paper has framed twelve criteria from the economic, environmental and social perspectives for evaluating suppliers. The well-established multi-criteria decision making tool Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is employed for ranking potential suppliers among the pool of suppliers. Through a real case study, the proposed approach has been applied and some managerial implications are derived.
Highlights
The fashion industry, which includes textiles and apparel, is one of the most prominent industries in the world
The textile and fashion clothing sector has sustainable economic development, it is a threat to the environment and to social welfare owing to problems like pollution, wastes, human rights issues, etc
The second part of this study focuses on ranking the sustainable suppliers based on their performance on the criteria framework using the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology called
Summary
The fashion industry, which includes textiles and apparel, is one of the most prominent industries in the world It is a big industry in developing countries, such as India. India Brand Equity Foundation [1], the textile and clothing business sector in India currently contributes to 14% of industrial growth, and 35 million job opportunities. It occupies 17% of export earnings and has the potential to achieve a US$80 billion global trade volume by 2020. According to a report by the United Nation Environment Programme [2] and the European Commission [3], the textile and clothing industry is the world second biggest economic sector and it occupies 7% of the total world exports. Achieving sustainability in textile and fashion business operations has to consider more than just economic development
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