Evaluation and selection of sustainable suppliers in the supply chain using the combined Vikor - FuzzyQFD method in pharmaceutical companies (Case study: Barakat Pharmaceutical Company)
Subject Areas : Industrial ManagementMohammad Amin Khoei 1 , Amin Jamili 2
1 - School of Industrial Eng., College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
2 - Faculty member of Tehran University
Keywords: Stable Supplier, VIKOR, Pharmaceutical Company, Fuzzy QFD,
Abstract :
In recent decades, the way of raw material supply and supplier selection in the health supply chain has been an important challenge. The supply chain of the pharmaceutical industry is critical and there is no specific mechanism for selecting pharmaceutical suppliers in the country. Due to increasing environmental and social awareness, choosing a sustainable supplier is one of the priorities of pharmaceutical companies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate and select sustainable suppliers in the supply chain of the pharmaceutical company. This research is a descriptive study and is applied in terms of purpose. Research data were collected through a review of literature, interviews with experts and a questionnaire. Supplier evaluation indicators were weighted and prioritized with fuzzy QFD approach. The indicators of strength and financial and technical stability, principles of supply chain agility and managerial capabilities with weights of 0.155, 0.133 and 0.115, respectively, are the most important indicators of sustainable suppliers. Then, the indicators of return policy, history, and applying the principles of green supply chain with weights of 0.059, 0.057 and 0.033 are the least important indicators for assessing the sustainability of suppliers in pharmaceutical companies in accordance with the findings of this study. Also, with VIKOR approach, four suppliers of Barakat Pharmaceutical Company were evaluated and prioritized in accordance with sustainable criteria. Two suppliers with appropriate stability points and two unsustainable suppliers were identified.
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(1995). Economic management for a risk society. Academy of management review, 20,118-37.
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Morali, O., & Searcy, C. (2013). A review of sustainable supply chain management practices in Canada. Journal of business ethics, 117(3), 635-658.
Yazdani M, Chatterjee P, Zavadskas EK, Hashemkhani Zolfani S. (2017). Integrated QFD-MCDM framework for green supplier selection. Journal of Cleaner Production, 142:3728-3740
Madjid Tavana, Morteza Yazdani & Debora Di Caprio. (2016). An application of an integrated ANP–QFD framework for sustainable supplier selection, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 20:254-275
Wang, H., Fang, Z., Wang, D., Liu, S. (2019). An Integrated Fuzzy QFD and Grey Decision-making Approach for Supply Chain Collaborative Quality Design of Large Complex Products. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 140: 1062012
Anvari A, Reihani R. (2020). Strategic Evaluation and Selection of Pharmaceutical Suppliers BOCR -Based Using Fuzzy Multi Criteria Decision Making. Journal of Healthcare Management.
Lu, LYY, Wu, CH, & Kuo, TC. (2007). Environmental principles applicable to green supplier evaluation by using multi-objective decision analysis, International Journal of Production Research, 45(18-19): 4317-4331. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/00207540701472694.
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Kuo, RJ, Wang, YC, Tien, FC. (2010). Integration of artificial neural network and MADA methods for green supplier selection. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(12): 1161-1170. http://dx.doi.org/1016/j.jclepro.2010.03.020.
Kannan, D., Govindan, K., & Rajendran, S. (2015). Fuzzy Axiomatic Design approach based green supplier selection: a case study from Singapore. Journal of Cleaner Production, 96, 194-208.
Kannan, D, Jabbour, ABLDS, Jabbour CJC. (2014). Selecting green suppliers based on GSCM practices: Using fuzzy TOPSIS applied to a Brazilian electronics company. European Journal of Operational Research, 233(2): 432- 447. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.07.023.
Kannan, D, Khodaverdi R, Olfat L, Jafarian A, Diabat A. (2013). Integrated fuzzy multi criteria decision making method and multi-objective programming approach for supplier selection and order allocation in a green supply chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 47: 355-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.02.010.
Shen, L, Olfat, L, Govindan, K, Khodaverdi, R, Diabat, A. (2013). A fuzzy multi criteria approach for evaluating green supplier’s performance in green supply chain with linguistic preferences. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 74: 170-179. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.resconrec.2012.09.006.
Zhao, H, & Guo, S. (2014). Selecting green supplier of thermal power equipment by using a Hybrid MCDM Method for sustainability, Sustainability 6 (1): 217-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su6010217.
Rostamzadeh, R, Govindan K, Esmaeili A, Sabaghi M. (2015). Application of fuzzy VIKOR for evaluation of green supply chain management practices. Ecological Indicators, 49: 188-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.09.045
Hashemi, S.H, Karimi, A, Tavana, M. (2015). An integrated green supplier selection approach with analytic network process and improved Grey relational analysis. International Journal of Production Economics, 159: 178-191.
Fallahpour, A., Amindoust, A., Antuchevičienė, J., & Yazdani, M. (2016). Nonlinear genetic-based model for supplier selection: a comparative study. Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 1-18.
Govindan, K., & Sivakumar, R. (2016). Green supplier selection and order allocation in a low-carbon paper industry: integrated multi-criteria heterogeneous decision-making and multi-objective linear programming approaches. Annals of Operations Research, 238(1-2), 243-276.
Yazdani, M., Hashemkhani Zolfani, S., & Zavadskas, E. K. (2016). New integration of MCDM methods and QFD in the selection of green suppliers. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 1-17.
Luthra, S., Govindan, K., Kannan, D., Mangla, S. K., & Garg, C. P. (2016). An integrated framework for sustainable supplier selection and evaluation in supply chains. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140(3): 1686-1698.
Biabangard, Esmaiel. (2013). Research methods in psychology and educational sciences. Doran Publishing, Tehran, Iran.
Ghodsipoor, Hassan. (2012). Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Amirkabir University Press, Tehran, Iran.
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