Analytic Hierarchy Process to Select Environmentally Conscious Suppliers for Sustainable Supply Chain Management : A Case Study in a Public Sector Transport Corporation

Abstract:

The ever increasing levels of hazardous and toxic waste generated from industrial sector hasten to implement the Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) in all sphere of the business practice. In this research article the authors developed a Supplier Selection model applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to select Environmentally Conscious Suppliers (ECS) for one of the maintenance unit of Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) providing public passenger transport service in a metropolitan city located in South India. Being a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), the organization has the list of approved suppliers who are pre-qualified to supply the materials and spare parts required to maintain their road vehicles in accordance with the Government’s Public Procurement Policy (PPP). However the growing concern being faced by the organization in the disposal of the hazardous and toxic waste accumulated, which forces them to select suitable suppliers who will comply with the SSCM principles from their pre-qualified list of suppliers.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 813-814)
• Pages: 1133-1139
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.813-814.1133
• Online since: November 2015
• Authors: P. Etraj*, J. Jayaprakash
• Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process, Environmentally Conscious Suppliers, Public Sector Undertaking, Sustainable Supply Chain Management

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