Supplier Evaluation Considering Green Production Based on Probabilistic Linguistic Information

Shuailei Yuan, Aijun Liu (), Zengxian Li, Yun Yang, Jing Liu and Yue Su
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Shuailei Yuan: School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
Aijun Liu: School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
Zengxian Li: School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
Yun Yang: School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
Jing Liu: School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
Yue Su: Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 19, 1-20

Abstract: The evaluation of manufacturing component suppliers is focused on economic indicators, with insufficient emphasis on green indicators and no consideration of the correlation between indicators. Firstly, indicators related to green production are incorporated into the supplier evaluation system. Then, for the problem that attributes in decision making can be divided into different categories and there are interrelationships between attributes of the same category, a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) method based on the partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean operator ( PMSM ) is proposed. Finally, the proposed MADM method was applied to the evaluation of component suppliers considering green production. Comparing popular decision methods with the newly proposed method for validation, it was demonstrated that the proposed multi-attribute decision method is highly flexible and versatile. Furthermore, the newly proposed aggregation operator can not only handle the correlation between multiple attributes, but also be converted to other general aggregation operators through parameter adjustment.

Keywords: supplier evaluation; greener production; probabilistic linguistic weighted partitioned Maclaurin symmetric mean operator ( PLWPMSM ); multi-attribute decision making; manufacturing industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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