Research on Sustainable Supplier Evaluation Index System in Architectural Design Industry

Xiaoyue You and Yuan Song ()
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Xiaoyue You: Sino-German College of Applied Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
Yuan Song: School of Information Management, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai 201209, China

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 11, 1-22

Abstract: Sustainable development has been popularized and emphasized in many industries. Great attention has been paid to the sustainability performance of the whole supply chain, with evaluating suppliers’ sustainability being particularly critical. However, research on sustainable development in the consulting service industry remains to be discovered, and few academic studies have analyzed the supplier selection indices derived from this industry. This paper conducted a case study in a design institute using the Delphi method to investigate the concept and characteristics of sustainable suppliers. Keywords derived from surveys and literature were collected, sorted, and established into a comprehensive hierarchy index system for sustainability evaluation. Finally, based on the improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the failure risk of the indices was analyzed with weighted risk factors to obtain the high-risk key evaluation indices, which provided a simplified scheme for enterprises to streamline the evaluation process on sustainable suppliers. The results show the reliability of the improved FMEA model by differentiating the risk value and ranking. Suggestions for sustainable improvement are provided.

Keywords: sustainable supplier; evaluation index; failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA); architectural design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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