Title: Modelling sustainable procurement problem: a goal-based approach

Authors: Harpreet Kaur; Surya Prakash Singh

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India ' Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

Abstract: Sustainable procurement problem not only considers traditional parameters such as purchasing cost, ordering cost, holding cost, and logistics cost but also considers non-traditional parameters such as carbon emission cost, thus, making it a multi-objective optimisation problem. However, in competitive business scenario, organisations have also some set targets for various traditional and non-traditional parameters making the procurement process a goal oriented one. These goals in turn make the overall procurement problem conflicting while the organisation tries to achieve all these goals with minimum deviations. Therefore, this paper is a novel attempt to optimise multi-objective sustainable procurement problem (MoSPP) in presence of various goals using goal programming approach and is referred as Multi_Goal_SPP. The goals for goal programming formulation are computed through MoSPP. The methodology is demonstrated through two illustrative examples solved in LINGO 10. Multi_Goal_SPP establishes optimal trade-off between conflicting goals set by organisation. The proposed model ensures the minimum total deviation from goals required to meet specified demand.

Keywords: multi-objective sustainable procurement problem; MoSPP; Multi_Goal_SPP; sustainable procurement problem; goal programming; multiple objectives; carbon emissions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2019.101455

International Journal of Operational Research, 2019 Vol.35 No.4, pp.447 - 469

Received: 25 May 2016
Accepted: 04 Sep 2016

Published online: 11 Aug 2019 *

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