Green supplier selection of a textile manufacturer: a hybrid approach based on AHP and VIKOR

Because of the increasing popularity onprotecting the environment, consumers prefer environmentally friendly productsin recent years. Due to the trend between consumers, companies have changedtheir production processes. The first necessity for production of anenvironmentally friendly product is to s...

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Main Authors: Billur Ecer, Ahmet Aktas, Mehmet Kabak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University 2019-12-01
Series:MANAS: Journal of Engineering
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/900014
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Summary:Because of the increasing popularity onprotecting the environment, consumers prefer environmentally friendly productsin recent years. Due to the trend between consumers, companies have changedtheir production processes. The first necessity for production of anenvironmentally friendly product is to supply less harmless raw materials.Therefore, companies have to supply production inputs from green suppliers inorder to produce environmentally friendly products. Since the wide use range oftextile products make them products that is desired to be green products, greensupplier selection of a textile manufacturer is considered in this study. Themain aim in this study is to propose a decision model for determination of thebest green suppliers. In the proposed model, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)and Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) methods areintegrated. AHP is used to determine criteria weights and VIKOR is used toevaluate alternative suppliers. Seven alternative green suppliers are evaluatedby taking 5 main criteria and 17 sub-criteria into account according to theopinions of planning department experts of the company. Alternative greensuppliers are ranked by using the proposed methodology and the study isconcluded with suggestions for further studies and by giving some managerialimplications.
ISSN:1694-7398