Title: Evaluation of green suppliers in garment industry in Jordan using multi-criteria decision making methods in fuzzy environment

Authors: Khalid Alzoubi; Esraa Abdelall; Bahaa Al-Migdady

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid, 22110, Jordan ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid, 22110, Jordan ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid, 22110, Jordan

Abstract: This study utilises a comprehensive fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMCDM) approach to evaluate and select green suppliers considering environmental criteria. In this work, two approaches were used to calculate the weights of environmental criteria used in the evaluation of suppliers; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and fuzzy technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS). Seven green criteria and three alternative suppliers were considered in this study. The two methods have revealed that supplier 2 was the most favourable supplier with the highest weighted score. The sensitivity analysis has shown that both FAHP and FTOPSIS produce robust results. However, FTOPSIS method has proven lower variability with fewer computational steps.

Keywords: fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; FAHP; FTOPSIS; green supply chain; supplier selection; multi-criteria decision making; MCDM; supply chain management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2024.138877

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2024 Vol.48 No.1, pp.120 - 139

Received: 25 Jul 2021
Accepted: 18 Nov 2021
Published online: 03 Jun 2024 *

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