Performance Evaluation of Sustainable Supply Chain Based on AHP and Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation

Abstract:

Due to limited materials and energy, more attention has been paid to the adverse impacts of the global economy’s rapid development on the environment and society. The sustainable and long-term development strategy becomes extremely urgent and important for the enterprises. Manufactures and their supply chain should take measures to implement sustainable development strategy in future production. The concept of sustainability is introduced into the field of supply chain and the structure of sustainable chain is constructed in this paper. And a method of sustainable supply chain performance evaluation is proposed. It evaluates the supply chain performance in four dimensions, namely, operational, financial, social and environmental dimensions. Then a performance evaluation model of sustainable supply chain based on AHP and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is established. This paper gives a case to evaluate the sustainable supply chain performance with the model and implications are given finally.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 26-28)
• Pages: 1004-1007
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.26-28.1004
• Online since: June 2010
• Authors: Yong Hua Guan, Hai Fang Cheng, Yong Ye
• Keywords: Analysis Hierarchy Process (AHP), Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation (FCE), Performance Evaluation, Sustainable Supply Chain

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