Title: Comparative evaluation of GSCM practices in automotive components manufacturing firms of India: a fuzzy TOPSIS approach

Authors: Sunil Luthra; Sanjay Kumar; Dixit Garg; Abid Haleem

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government Polytechnic, Jhajjar-124103, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, International Institute of Technology and Management, Murthal-13103, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra-136119, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Isalmia University, New Delhi-110025, India

Abstract: Managing process of greening the whole supply chain encompasses careful and critical examination of supply chain members, upstream and downstream supply chain members. This paper provides comparative evaluations of GSCM practices in automotive components manufacturing firms of India towards effective green supplier selection by taking a real world problem. GSCM practices were sorted from extensive review of literature and structured questionnaire was formed; and the data was collected from selected firms to evaluate their current GSCM practices adoption. A fuzzy TOPSIS technique has been applied for comparative evaluations of GSCM practices in selected four automotive components manufacturing firms and to rank these selected firms. The influence of preferences provided by decision makers has also been analysed using sensitivity analysis to examine and demonstrate the robustness of the adapted methodology. Our study has implications for SC practitioners/managers to solve MCDM problems related to effective implementation of GSCM practices in firms.

Keywords: fuzzy logic; fuzzy TOPSIS; green SCM; supply chain management; GSCM practices; India; automobile industry; multicriteria decision making; MCDM; sensitivity analysis; triangular fuzzy numbers; TFNs; India; automotive supply chains; automotive components; component manufacturing; supplier selection.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2016.079831

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2016 Vol.25 No.3, pp.358 - 390

Received: 22 May 2015
Accepted: 28 Aug 2015
Published online: 17 Oct 2016 *

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