MANUFACTURING SUPPLY CHAINS AND SUSTAINABILITY: A FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH

摘要

This study aims at defining a methodology to improve sustainability in supply chains. As supplychain sustainability is a multi-dimensional characteristic with several variables and subvariables,there is a need to understand their relative priority for a more focussed approach forimprovement. To achieve this end the research presented in this paper proposes a Fuzzy-AHPbased framework to prioritize sustainability dimensions in supply chains. An exhaustiveliterature review complimented with the experts' opinion was undertaken from the perspective oftwo manufacturing supply chains to formulate a hierarchical structure of sustainability in supplychains. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP) is then utilized to ascertain the relativeweightings which are subsequently used to prioritize these sustainability variables.Understanding the priorities would help the firms to accord importance and develop suitablestrategies to improve supply chain sustainability variables according to their relative importance.