Development of a Framework for Sustainable Outsourcing: Analytic Balanced Scorecard Method (A-BSC)

Fabio De Felice, Antonella Petrillo and Claudio Autorino
Additional contact information
Fabio De Felice: Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, G, Di Biasio Street 43, 03043 Cassino, Italy
Antonella Petrillo: Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Centro Direzionale Napoli, Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy
Claudio Autorino: Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Centro Direzionale Napoli, Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy

Sustainability, 2015, vol. 7, issue 7, 1-21

Abstract: Nowadays, many enterprises choose to outsource its non-core business to other enterprises to reduce cost and increase the efficiency. Many enterprises choose to outsource their supply chain management (SCM) and leave it to a third-party organization in order to improve their services. The paper proposes an integrated and multicriteria tool useful to monitor and to improve performance in an outsourced supply chain. The Analytic Balanced Scorecard method (A-BSC) is proposed as an effective method useful to analyze strategic performance within an outsourced supply chain. The aim of the paper is to present the integration of two methodologies: Balanced Scorecard , a multiple perspective framework for performance assessment, and Analytic Hierarchy Process , a decision-making tool used to prioritize multiple performance perspectives and to generate a unified metric. The development of the framework is aimed to provide a performance analysis to achieve better sustainability performance of supply chain. A real case study concerning a typical value chain is presented.

Keywords: outsorcing; sustainability; BSC; AHP; supply chain management; performance analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (17)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/7/8399/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/7/8399/ (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:7:y:2015:i:7:p:8399-8419:d:51879

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 ().