Title: Analysing barriers to sustainable supply chain management: a home appliances manufacturing case study

Authors: Deepak Kumar Pathak; Ajay Verma; Vimal Kumar

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal-462007, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal-462007, India ' Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng, Taichung-41349, Taiwan

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyse the barriers hindering sustainability in the context of Indian home appliances manufacturing industry. Through a broad literature review, experts' judgements and Pareto analysis 18 barriers have been recognised and classified into five major categories of management, government, knowledge, technical and financial. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been used to give the comparative importance and prioritising the identified 18 barriers of sustainability in context of Indian home appliance manufacturing industry. The results of this study reveal that lack of top management involvement under management related barrier category is significant barrier having maximum weightage of 23.7% followed by lack of research and development on sustainability with the global weight of 13.9%. The ranking of barriers in this research work will gives an imminent to the manufacturing organisations in confronting barriers, also assist researchers, and policymakers for their better understanding among them.

Keywords: sustainability; supply chain; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; barriers; manufacturing organisations.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2025.149883

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2025 Vol.52 No.3, pp.387 - 409

Received: 08 Feb 2023
Accepted: 22 Apr 2023
Published online: 17 Nov 2025 *

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