A state-of-art literature review reflecting 15 years of focus on sustainable supply chain management

https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa41022/Download/0041022-14072018201627.pdf

Enablers to implement sustainable initiatives in agri-food supply chains

An analysis of barriers affecting the implementation of e-waste management practices in India: A novel ISM-DEMATEL approach

In past years, the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approaches have been extensively applied by researchers to the supplier evaluation and selection problem. Many of these studies were performed in an uncertain environment described by fuzzy sets. This study provides a review of applications of MADM approaches for evaluation and selection of suppliers in a fuzzy environment. To this aim, a total of 339 publications were examined, including papers in peer-reviewed journals and reputable conferences and also some book chapters over the period of 2001 to 2016. These publications were extracted from many online databases and classified in some categories and subcategories according to the MADM approaches, and then they were analysed based on the frequency of approaches, number of citations, year of publication, country of origin and publishing journals. The results of this study show that the AHP and TOPSIS methods are the most popular approaches. Moreover, China and Taiwan are the top countries...

/pdf/supplier-evaluation-and-selection-in-fuzzy-environments-a-2rclopevrp.pdf

Supplier evaluation and selection in fuzzy environments: a review of MADM approaches

Development of a lean manufacturing framework to enhance its adoption within manufacturing companies in developing economies

Sustainable supply chain management has received much attention form researchers and practitioners over the past decade owing to the increasing awareness regarding environmental and social issues. Accordingly, organisations come under pressure from a number of both internal and external sources including employees, customers, competitors, socially aware organisations, communities, governments, and non-governmental organisations to act in a more socially responsible way. As a result, more authors are beginning to address supplier selection problems in light of sustainability criteria. However, the interrelationships among sustainability supplier selection criteria have rarely been discussed in the research literature. This study is aimed primarily at finding and analysing such interactions. We made use of interpretive structural modelling to extract the interrelationships among sustainability criteria and fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory to determine the intensity of these relationships. A case study in the gas industry is presented to demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of the proposed approach.

Babak Merikhi

Papers

Analysis of interactions among sustainability supplier selection criteria using ISM and fuzzy DEMATEL