Affiliation:
1. School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
2. School of Economics and Management, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China
Abstract
With the intensification of global competition and the increasing awareness of reducing energy consumption, sustainable supplier selection is crucial for establishing a solid cooperative relationship in sustainable supply chain management. This paper proposes a new framework that considers both the effective expression of uncertain information and the objective weights of decision makers to select sustainable suppliers. We first apply an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set to express the information of decision makers. Moreover, this paper applies a plant growth simulation algorithm to aggregate decision makers’ information. Next, we adopt the similarity measure method to derive the target weight of each decision maker. Then, we apply the score function to rank the candidate sustainable suppliers. Finally, two practical cases are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework. The outcomes and comparative discussion show that the developed framework is efficient for sustainable supplier selection. Therefore, the proposed framework can be used to establish a solid cooperative relationship in the process of sustainable supply chain management.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
General Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research in Colleges and Universities of Jiangsu Province
Subject
Geometry and Topology,Logic,Mathematical Physics,Algebra and Number Theory,Analysis