Title:Selection of Sustainable Suppliers Using the Fuzzy MARCOS Method
Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Author(s): Adis Puška, Željko Stević*Ilija Stojanović
Affiliation:
- University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering Doboj,Bosnia and Herzegovina
Keywords:
Sustainable supply chain, supplier selection, fuzzy logic, fuzzy MARCOS method, MCDM, food sector.
Abstract:
Background: Selection of Sustainable Suppliers is a key term in sustainable supply
chain management. This is the reason to choose the supplier who will support the company to implement
sustainability in its business, especially in the supply chain.
Objective: The aim of this paper is to establish a new innovative model for decision-making based
on a fuzzy approach.
Methods: This decision-making problem is solved by applying multi-criteria decision-making
since there are several criteria according to which a decision should be made: economic, social, and
environmental. In order to make the final decision on the supply chain better and safer, the social
criteria were modified in this paper, adding ethical criteria. The example with modified social criteria
in this paper was shown on the example of the company "Voćar" Brčko, which deals with the
production of food products. In this paper, the fuzzy Measurement Alternatives and Ranking, according
to the Compromise Solution Method, was used.
Results: The findings have shown that supplier A1 has the best results, which were confirmed with
the first sensitivity analysis. However, the second sensitivity analysis has shown that supplier A5
was better than supplier A1 in 14 scenarios. Due to these findings, no unanimous decision can be
made about which supplier among the two, in this case, would contribute more.
Conclusion: This paper has shown that the selection of sustainable suppliers is crucial for any
company focused on the principles of sustainability in business. Moreover, this paper has shown
that it is sometimes very difficult to select just one supplier.
