Gresilient supplier assessment and order allocation planning

Ahmed Mohammed*, Irina Harris, Anthony Soroka, Mohamed Naim, Tim Ramjaun, Morteza Yazdani

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Abstract

Companies are under pressure to re-engineer their supply chains to ‘go green’ while simultaneously improving their resilience to cope with unexpected disruptions where the supplier selection decision plays a strategic role. We present a new approach to supplier evaluation and allocating the optimal order quantity from each supplier with respect to green and resilience (gresilience) characteristics. An integrated framework that considers traditional business, green and resilience criteria and sub-criteria was developed, followed by a calculation of importance weight of criteria and sub-criteria using analytical hierarchy process (AHP). We evaluate suppliers using the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The obtained weights from AHP and TOPSIS were integrated into a developed multi-objective programming model used as an order allocation planner and the ε-constraint method was used to solve the multi-objective optimization problem. TOPSIS was applied to select the final Pareto solution based on its closeness from the ideal solution. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach was illustrated using a real case study through a comparatively meaningful ranking of suppliers. The study provides a helpful aid for managers seeking to improve their supply chain resilience along with ‘go green’ responsibilities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)335-362
Number of pages28
JournalAnnals of Operations Research
Volume296
Issue number1-2
Early online date21 Apr 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support from the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government for ASTUTE 2020 (Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies) to facilitate this work. Also, the first author would like to express his gratitude to the Research Council (TRC) in the Sultanate of Oman for their support of this work.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

  • AHP
  • Green development
  • Multi-objective optimization
  • Supplier selection
  • Supply chain resilience
  • TOPSIS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Decision Sciences
  • Management Science and Operations Research

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