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Title Sustainable circular supplier selection and evaluation in the manufacturing sector using Pythagorean fuzzy EDAS approach
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Authors Liu, C; Rani, P; Pachori, K
Title Sustainable circular supplier selection and evaluation in the manufacturing sector using Pythagorean fuzzy EDAS approach
Year 2022
Published Journal Of Enterprise Information Management, 35, 4/5
DOI 10.1108/JEIM-04-2021-0187
Abstract Purpose Due to stern management policies and increased community attentiveness, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) performs a vast component in endeavor operation and production management. Sustainable circular supplier selection (SCSS) and evaluation presented the environmental and social concerns in the fields of circular economy and sustainable supplier selection. Choosing the optimal SCSS is vital for organizations to persuade SSCM, as specified in various researches. Based on the subjectivity of human behavior, the selection of ideal SCSS often involves uncertain information, and the Pythagorean fuzzy sets (PFSs) have a huge capability to tackle strong vagueness, uncertainty and inaccuracy in the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) procedure. Here, a framework is developed to assess and establish suitable suppliers in the SSCM and the circular economy. Design/methodology/approach This paper introduced an extended framework using the evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDAS) with PFSs and implemented it to solve the SCSS in the manufacturing sector. Firstly, the PFSs to handle the uncertain information of decision experts (DEs) is employed. Secondly, a novel divergence measure and parametric score function for calculating the criteria weights are proposed. Thirdly, an extended decision-making approach, known as PF-EDAS, is introduced. Findings The outcomes and comparative discussion show that the developed method is efficient and capable of facilitating the DEs to choose desirable SCSS. Therefore, the proposed framework can be used by organizations to assess and establish suitable suppliers in the SCSS process in the circular economy. Originality/value Selecting the optimal sustainable circular supplier (SCS) in the manufacturing sector is important for organizations to persuade SSCM, as specified in various research. However, corresponding to the subjectivity of human behavior, the selection of the best SCS often involves uncertain information, and the PFSs have a huge capability to tackle strong vagueness, uncertainty and inaccuracy in the MCDM procedure. Hence, manufacturing companies' administrators can implement the developed method to assess and establish suitable suppliers in the SCSS process in the circular economy.
Author Keywords Sustainable circular supplier; Circular economy; Sustainable supply chain management; Pythagorean fuzzy sets; Divergence measure; EDAS
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Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000708064400001
WoS Category Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Information Science & Library Science; Management
Research Area Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science; Business & Economics
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