Towards ‘gresilient’ supply chain management: A quantitative study

The vast majority of current literature handle supplier selection problem considering green and resilience aspects, bifurcately. But green supply chain performance is subject to disruption by internal /or external events. This initiates the need for a merged management approach to establish green and resilient supply chains, that we hereby present it as “gresilient” supply chain management. At the institutional level, the integration of measures of these two paradigms into supply chain processes frets substantial management challenges. This research intends to overcome some of these challenges in exploring, identifying and quantifying resiliency and greenness performance in supplier selection context. To this end, this work aims to: (1) explore and analyse the need and complementarities for or between resiliency and greenness in supply chain context; (2) identify the criteria of greenness and resiliency (a new framework for resilient supplier was developed in considering criteria of development, agility, robustness, sensing and flexibility (DARSF) into a unified framework; (3) quantify the gresilience performance measures by proposing a quantitative approach to evaluate the relative importance of the ‘gresilience’ criteria and suppliers’ gresilience performance via multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) algorithms. The main findings are: (i) a holistic gresilient supplier evaluation framework; and (ii) a user-friendly decision-making tool to gauge gresilience performance of suppliers. This research provides them with a clear insight towards gresilient advantages in today’ highly competitive business. This research bridges the literature gap in addressing the supplier selection problem from resiliency and greenness perspectives, jointly.