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Research on Sustainable Supplier Selection Based on the Rough DEMATEL and FVIKOR Methods

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  • Jing Zhang

    (School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China)

  • Dong Yang

    (School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China)

  • Qiang Li

    (School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China)

  • Benjamin Lev

    (LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadephia, PA 19104, USA)

  • Yanfang Ma

    (School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China)

Abstract

In competitive global markets, sustainable suppliers are critical success factors for sustainable supply chain operations. Sustainable supplier selection must be based on a complex network of numerous indicators and experts’ fuzzy linguistic terms. Considering the correlation between the evaluation criteria and the ambiguity of the criteria values, this paper proposes combining the rough DEMATEL method and the fuzzy VIKOR (FVIKOR) method to solve sustainable supplier selection problem. We determine 15 sustainable supplier evaluation criteria from economic, environmental and social dimensions. We also apply the rough DEMATEL method to determine the weight of evaluation indicators that are interrelated or even conflicting and use the FVIKOR method to determine supplier rankings by converting the fuzzy linguistic terms into precise information. The practicability of the proposed method is verified by an example of sustainable supplier selection.

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  • Jing Zhang & Dong Yang & Qiang Li & Benjamin Lev & Yanfang Ma, 2020. "Research on Sustainable Supplier Selection Based on the Rough DEMATEL and FVIKOR Methods," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-24, December.
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