Title: A hybrid multi-criteria decision making method for sustainable supplier selection: a case study

Authors: Shiva Zandkarimkhani; Meysam Amiri; Sayed Mohammad Hossein Mousavi

Addresses: School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Parand Branch, Parand, Iran ' Department of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: The sustainability concept is considered an essential and fundamental requirement in many organisations for supporting environmental activities and social issues important to the successful implementation of sustainable supply chain practices. In general, collaboration with sustainable suppliers is the first step to move towards sustainability. Therefore, in this paper, a practical approach based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is developed for sustainable supplier selection under uncertainty. In the proposed approach, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method is used to calculate the criteria weights and interval VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) is applied to rank suppliers. Interval numbers are also used to facilitate the evaluation process of suppliers under uncertainty. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed approach is measured using experts' knowledge of experts in an aluminium cans production industry.

Keywords: sustainable supplier selection; analytic hierarchy process; AHP; VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje; VIKOR; uncertainty; multi-criteria decision making; MCDM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2022.121917

International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2022 Vol.21 No.2, pp.113 - 128

Received: 08 Aug 2020
Accepted: 25 Aug 2020
Published online: 07 Apr 2022 *

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