An Improved Hybrid Grey Relational Analysis Approach for Green Resilient Supply Chain Network Assessment

Amirmahdi Malek, Sadoullah Ebrahimnejad and Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
Additional contact information
Amirmahdi Malek: Department of Industrial Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, 14778–93855 Tehran, Iran
Sadoullah Ebrahimnejad: Department of Industrial Engineering, Karaj Branch, Ismalic Azad University, 31486–35731 Karaj, Iran
Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam: School of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, 14399–57131 Tehran, Iran

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-28

Abstract: In the growing and turbulent market of the current world both in national and in international relations, the need for reviewing and assessment of the resiliency of suppliers as one of the new concepts in supply chain management has been prioritized. In addition, globalization, increasing the regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations, customers’ request and pressure regarding environmental issues has led organizations to evaluate the measures necessary to implement green supply chain management, to improve their environmental and economic performance. The subject of selecting and evaluating suppliers on green supply chain with resilience capability first requires the identification of the supplier evaluation criteria so that it considers the resiliency of the supply chain concurrent with the concepts of green supply chain. Secondly, right tools should be used for the decision. Considering all the criteria and indicators in conditions of uncertainty encourages the development and application of methods, such as fuzzy theory and grey systems theory. In this research, a comprehensive model for evaluating green resilience supply chain network is provided. In order to apply both quantitative and qualitative criteria, the possibility of making the target based criteria dimensionless along the cost or benefit criteria, the use of experts’ opinions in the allocation of weights to the criteria and indicators using grey numbers, grey relational analysis are developed and improved. In the end, the implementation of the proposed model is explained step by step in a case study and the future conclusions and recommendations are suggested.

Keywords: green resilient supplier selection; grey relational analysis; supply chain network; target-based criteria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/8/1433/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/8/1433/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:9:y:2017:i:8:p:1433-:d:108558

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().