Abstract

Supply chain management used to be widely understood as an integrated manufacturing process, in which the raw material is converted to the finished product and then delivered to the customer. With increasing concern towards environmental protection, organizations have become more and more responsible for their products and overall sustainability. For companies to maintain their sustainability and competitiveness in the market, green supply chain management (GSCM) considers a systematic and integrated approach. It has been found from the literature that the green supplier selection is an important issue in improving environmental related performance. Many studies are discussing traditional supply chain management and green supplier selection but rarely developing practical methods that combine traditional and green supplier selections. Therefore, this study intends to develop a green supplier selection model, which considers both the practicality in traditional supplier selection criteria, and also the green concept related to environmental protection and regulations. In the present work a strategic decision modeling based on Analytical Network Process (ANP) approach has been used to study the extension of traditional supplier selection methods with environmental factors. The study intends to analyze and measure the performance of a set of suppliers in order to rank and select them for improving the competitiveness of the whole supply system

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