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Evaluation of Green Suppliers Considering Decision Criteria Dependencies

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Purchasing is one of the vital functions within a company and supplier performance evaluation is one of the most important business processes of the purchasing function. Traditionally, companies have considered factors such as price, quality, flexibility, etc. when evaluating suppliers. Meanwhile, increasing pressures urge them to consider green issues. This study proposes a multi-criteria evaluation model for supplier performance evaluation by considering various performance criteria. It is shown that these criteria are not independent, in other words simultaneous satisfaction of two or more criteria is required for a good rating, while unilateral success is ineffective. The conventional weighted mean can not deal with this aspect, and compromise operators are more suitable. In this sense, the operators of the Choquet integral family are interesting and are applied to evaluate the suppliers’ performance for an industrial case.

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This work has been financially supported by Galatasaray University Research Fund.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Galatasaray University, Çırag̃an Caddesi No: 36, Ortaköy, İstanbul, Turkey

    Orhan Feyziog̃lu

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  1. Dept. Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  3. Dept. Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

    Theodor J. Stewart

  4. and Business Administration, Helsinki School of Economics, Runeberginkatu 14-16, Helsinki, 00100, Finland

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Feyziog̃lu, O., Büyüközkan, G. (2010). Evaluation of Green Suppliers Considering Decision Criteria Dependencies. In: Ehrgott, M., Naujoks, B., Stewart, T., Wallenius, J. (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04045-0_12

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