Gresilient supplier selection through Fuzzy Ordinal Priority Approach: decision-making in post-COVID era

Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the supply of both essential and non-essential goods and services has been unprecedentedly disrupted. In the absence of any playbook, the need for innovative technologies to aid recovery from the Supply Chain (SC) disruptions quickly and effectively becomes persiste...

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Published in:Operations management research 2022-06, Vol.15 (1-2), p.208-232
Main Authors: Mahmoudi, Amin, Javed, Saad Ahmed, Mardani, Abbas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Business and Management
Component and supplier management
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Decision making
Distribution
Engineering Economics
Industrial and Production Engineering
Innovation/Technology Management
Logistics
Management
Marketing
Operations Management
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Organization
Procurement management
Resilience
Suppliers
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Vendor relations
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Summary:Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the supply of both essential and non-essential goods and services has been unprecedentedly disrupted. In the absence of any playbook, the need for innovative technologies to aid recovery from the Supply Chain (SC) disruptions quickly and effectively becomes persistent. The study aims to develop an innovative decision-making technology to handle the supplier selection problems arising from the frequent impreciseness and incompleteness in the nowadays' SC reports within the framework of the gresilient supply chain management. Through the integration of green and resilience aspects of the SCs, the supply chain 'gresilience' has been conceptualized. In light of this construct and based on the data collected from a manufacturing firm, the study deploys a two-fold decomposition of the core algorithm of the Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA), one for attributes and other for alternatives. It extends the OPA to the Fuzzy OPA (OPA-F) for solving the supplier selection problems. The study illustrates how green and resilience aspects of the SC can be integrated to better understand the gresilient suppliers in the wake of the SC disruptions. A novel construct of SC Gresilience is also furnished along with a novel definition of SC Gresilience. It also provides an innovative SC decision-making technology to help procurement managers to evaluate their suppliers. The resultant framework can help them better prepare for the COVID-19 like disruptions in the future.
ISSN:1936-9735
1936-9743
DOI:10.1007/s12063-021-00178-z