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

Abstract

Because of the increasing popularity on protecting the environment, consumers preferenvironmentally friendly products in recent years. Due to the trend among consumers,companies have changed their production processes. The first necessity for production of anenvironmentally friendly product is to supply less harmless raw materials. Therefore, companieshave to supply production inputs from green suppliers in order to produce environmentallyfriendly products. Since the wide use range of textile products make them products that aredesired to be green products, green supplier selection of a textile manufacturer was examinedin this study. The main 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 ViseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) methods were integrated. AHPwas used to determine criteria weights and VIKOR was used to evaluate alternative suppliers.Seven alternative green suppliers were evaluated by taking 5 main criteria and 17 sub-criteriainto account according to the opinions of planning department experts of the company.Alternative green suppliers were ranked by using the proposed methodology and the study wasconcluded with suggestions for further studies and by giving some managerial implications.