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Environmental performance evaluation of suppliers: A hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach

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Increasing environmental problems enforce companies to be more environmental responsible. A company’s environmental performance is not only related to the company’s inner environmental efforts, but also it is affected by the suppliers’ environmental performance and image. As a stakeholder of the company, a supplier with bad environmental image affects badly the company’s environmental image. Also, raw materials and semi-finished products supplied from out of the company recourses- suppliers- affects the products environmental features such as life cycle, re-usability, re-manufacturability, hazardous substances, etc. Considering these direct and indirect effects, managers should also consider environmental performances of their suppliers in their supplier evaluation process. In this paper, a methodology for the evaluation of suppliers’ environmental performances is proposed. In this methodology, a hybrid Fuzzy-Analytic Network Process and Fuzzy-Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations approach is utilized. Additionally, a numerical example is given to foster the better understanding of the methodology and the obtained results are analyzed with sensitivity analyses.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Yildiz, Istanbul, Turkey

    G. Tuzkaya Ph.D. (Research assistant), D. Ozgen Ph.D. (Research assistant) & U. R. Tuzkaya Ph.D. (Assistant professor)

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Okan University, Akfirat, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey

    A. Ozgen Ph.D. (Lecturer)

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Tuzkaya, G., Ozgen, A., Ozgen, D. et al. Environmental performance evaluation of suppliers: A hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 6, 477–490 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03326087

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