P. Etraj
J. Jayaprakash
Abstract
Contemporary Supply Chain Management aims to maintain long-term partnership with the suppliers who are not only reliable, quality conscious, promptness of delivery, price competitive but also environmental conscious. The increasingly deterioration of environment in the fast phase forces many organizations particularly in the industrial sectors to develop and implement the Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in their business activity gains its momentum. In this research work an attempt has been made to integrate the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for developing a unique Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) model green supplier selection problem applicable to Government Public Procurement under typical Indian environment. By considering the interrelationships among the criteria, DEMATEL was applied to deal with the importance and causal relationships among the evaluation criteria of supplier selection. AHP has been applied to help the Decision Makers (DM) to make pair-wise comparison of suppliers who satisfy the GSCM criterion prioritized by the DEMATEL process. The results show that Quality Dimensions, Price Dimensions and Environmental Dimensions of GSCM have significant influences in selecting suppliers with Green Competencies and also help DMs to understand the cause-effort relationships for selecting suitable suppliers who have competence in GSCM to improve the environmental performance.
Keywords- Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP), Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM).