Abstract:
In the previous decade, fossil energy resources shortage and environmental challenges such as air and water pollution, global warming, and greenhouse-gas emissions, etc. have increased environmental concerns considerably. Since, one of the most practical and useful solutions to decrease environmental pollutants is to deploy green purchasing and clean energies by organizations or even governments. Thus, the construction of renewable-energy power plants and, consequently, the green supplier selection for these plants’ equipment has become more important. With this respect, this article presents a novel approach to assess and select green suppliers of a solar power plant. The proposed approach integrates Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and VIKOR (Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) methodologies. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach as a practical tool to assist managers and CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) of electric power industry in assessing suppliers of solar power plant’s equipment.
Machine summary:
"com Green Supplier Evaluation by Using an Integrated Fuzzy AHP- VIKOR Approach Mehdi HakimiAsla, Mohsen Sadegh Amalnicka, Farbod Zorriassatineb and Alireza HakimiAsla a Industrial Engineering School, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran b Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz branch, Shiraz, Iran Abstract In recent years, depletion of fossil fuel reserves and environmental challenges such as air and water pollution, global warming, and greenhouse-gas emissions have increased environmental concerns considerably.
Keywords: Green supplier evaluation and selection; Solar power plant; Fuzzy AHP; VIKOR.
, 2015) evaluated the green suppliers of an electronics company by means of a novel hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method.
2010) presented a fuzzy multi-criteria approach in order to evaluate 1 Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory Model (DEMATEL) 2 Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) the environmental performance of suppliers.
Therefore, in this research, Fuzzy AHP-VIKOR approach is employed to tackle imprecision and uncertainty in decision makers' judgments for evaluating green suppliers ( C.
The Proposed approach Step 1: Preparing a list of green suppliers As mentioned before, in this article, eight authentic firms (GS01-08) will be evaluated in terms of supplying solar panels.
It is noteworthy that our proposed approach has the ability to evaluate green suppliers of solar power plant's equipment without quantitative information and by using linguistic terms to overcome the uncertainty due to human qualitative judgment.
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