98 Int. J. Services and Operations Management, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2017
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Green supplier selection in fuzzy context:
a decision-making scenario on application of
fuzzy-MULTIMOORA
Dilip Kumar Sen, Saurav Datta*,
Saroj Kumar Patel and
Siba Sankar Mahapatra
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
National Institute of Technology,
Rourkela-769008, Odisha, India
Email: dilipsen05@gmail.com
Email: sdattaju@gmail.com
Email: skpatel85@gmail.com
Email: ssm@nitrkl.ac.in
*Corresponding author
Abstract: Green supply chain management has become an important avenue in
current business scenario. The concept of GSCM is to integrate environmental
thinking into traditional supply chain management. A firm’s sustainability
performance is greatly influenced by appropriate supplier selection in the green
supply chain context. In selecting appropriate green supplier, various green
criteria need to be considered along with traditional supplier selection criteria.
The decision making in the context of green supplier selection becomes much
more complex due to involvement of subjective selection criteria. Subjective
human judgment often bears ambiguity and vagueness in the decision making;
whilst fuzzy set theory overcomes the challenges of imprecise and inconsistent
human judgment in ambiguous decision environment. In this context, a
decision making scenario in relation to green supplier selection has been
articulated in this paper aiming to investigate the applicability of
MULTIMOORA in fuzzy setting (F-MULTIMOORA). The ranking order of
candidate suppliers has been compared to that of fuzzy-TOPSIS. Finally, an
attempt has been made to determine a unique quantitative performance index
for each of the green suppliers; based on which a ranking order has also been
arrived.
Keywords: green supply chain management; GSCM; F-MULTIMOORA;
fuzzy-TOPSIS.
Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Sen, D.K., Datta, S.,
Patel, S.K. and Mahapatra, S.S. (2017) ‘Green supplier selection in fuzzy
context: a decision-making scenario on application of fuzzy-MULTIMOORA’,
Int. J. Services and Operations Management, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.98–140.
Biographical notes: Dilip Kumar Sen is a PhD Scholar in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.
He received his BE in 2008 and MTech in 2013. His areas of interest
include industrial management and decision making. Currently, he has many
publications in the reputed international journal to his credit. He has three years
of teaching experience too in one of the renowned engineering college at
Jabalpur, India. He is an active member of Indian Society for Technical
Education (ISTE).