Abstract
With the development of global environment and social economy, it is an indispensable choice for enterprises to achieve sustainable growth through developing low-carbon economy and constructing low-carbon supply chain. Supplier is the source of chain, thus selecting excellent low-carbon supplier is the foundation of establishing efficient low-carbon supply chain. This paper presents a novel hybrid model for supplier selection integrated factor analysis (FA), data envelopment analysis (DEA), with analytic hierarchy process (AHP), namely FA-DEA-AHP. First, an evaluation index system is built, incorporating product level, qualification, cooperation ability, and environmental competitiveness. FA is utilized to extract common factors from the 18 pre-selected indicators. Then, DEA is applied to establish the pairwise comparison matrix and AHP is employed to rank these low-carbon suppliers comprehensively and calculate the validity of the decision-making units. Finally, an experiment study with seven cement suppliers in a large industrial enterprise is carried out in this paper. The results reveal that the proposed technique can not only select effective suppliers, but also realize a comprehensive ranking. This research has enriched the methodology of low-carbon supplier evaluation and selection, as well as owns theoretical value in exploring the coordinated development of low-carbon supply chain to some extent.
Highlights
In recent years, with the burgeoning development of economic society, increasing energy consumption and serious environmental pollution have ensued, in particular, the dramatic growth in carbon dioxide has led to global warming and the rise of sea level [1]
In the factor analysis (FA)-analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model, supplier 6 ranks first, which means that the enterprise should first select supplier 6 as its own low carbon supplier
The FA-data envelopment analysis (DEA)-AHP mentioned in this paper can effectively remedy the defects of factor analysis and analytic hierarchy process (FA-AHP)
Summary
With the burgeoning development of economic society, increasing energy consumption and serious environmental pollution have ensued, in particular, the dramatic growth in carbon dioxide has led to global warming and the rise of sea level [1]. Governments are dedicated to “Low-Carbon Revolution and Circular Economy” around the world through promulgation of policy and encouragement to enterprises on taking both economic and environmental benefits into account [2,3]. Centobelli et al [5,6] conducts a structured review on the topic of energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and taxonomy of green initiatives in the supply chain management context. Improvement of the public’s awareness on low-carbon environmental protection makes it remarkably intense for the demand of related products [7]. It is imperative for suppliers to fulfill the customer’s low-carbon requirements during the supply chain management
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