Sustainable Supplier Selection and Order Allocation: An Integrated Delphi Method, Fuzzy TOPSIS and Multi-Objective Programming Model

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1 Faculty of Management and Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of the current study is to select suppliers and determine their order allocation in a way that the performance of the sustainability of the supply process gets optimized on the whole. In this research, after reviewing the literature and investigating the supply chain of the case study (Iran Khodro’s supply chain) through Delphi method, a set of evaluation criteria related to the performance of the suppliers in economical, social and environmental terms was identified. In the next stage, by using the identified criteria, the multi-objective mathematical integer programming was presented to solve the problems of suppliers’ selection and order allocation. The suggested mathematical programming in this research is designed to be multi-product, single-period and multiple sourcing. Fuzzy TOPSIS method is applied to calculate the qualitative parameters that are used in the suggested mathematical programming. Ultimately, the mathematical model suggested in the research will be solved by two methods, i.e. Epsilon Constraint Method and Weighted Sum Method. Moreover, the total value of the sustainable purchasing (TVSP) will be calculated for both cases. Comparing these two methods indicates that in this research the results of weighted sum method are better than those epsilon constraint method.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 26, Issue 4
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
July and August 2019
Pages 2524-2540

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  • Receive Date: 25 September 2017
  • Revise Date: 18 March 2018
  • Accept Date: 16 July 2018

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