Research of Sustainable Supplier Selection Problem Using Fuzzy Inference Systems

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 162 - 179, 18.01.2024

Turgut Hacıvelioğulları , Nurullah Umarusman

https://doi.org/10.26650/JTL.2023.1370019

Abstract

The concept of sustainability, emerged against the concerns about environmental degradation and social inequality, has led the public and private sectors to follow sustainability policies and practices. Therefore, businesses have started to select their suppliers by evaluating them based on the sustainability criteria such as market conditions, government policies, business objectives, and geographical location. In sustainable supply chain management, possible problems can be overcome by creating a balance between economic, environmental, and social dimensions through supplier selection. Using the Mamdani-type Fuzzy Inference Systems, a new model in the on-board equipment sector has been proposed to solve the sustainable supplier selection problem of a company. The sustainability level and performance level of suppliers were simultaneously calculated based on the same rules in the proposed model. Later, the business suppliers were ranked according to the sustainability and performance levels of the suppliers. It has been determined that there are different priority rankings among the same criteria for sustainability and performance levels by using the rules in the proposed model.

Keywords

Fuzzy Inference System, sustainable supply chain management, supplier selection

Bulanık Çıkarım Sistemleri Kullanılarak Sürdürülebilir Tedarikçi Seçim Probleminin İncelenmesi

Abstract

Çevresel bozulma ve sosyal eşitsizlikle ilgili kaygılara karşı ortaya çıkan sürdürülebilirlik kavramı kamu ve özel sektörü sürdürülebilirlik politikalarını ve uygulamalarını takip etmeye yönlendirmiştir. Dolayısıyla bu sektörlerdeki işletmeler tedarikçilerini sürdürülebilirlik kriterlerine göre değerlendirerek seçimi gerçekleştirmeye başlamıştır. Bu seçim sürecinde piyasa şartları, devlet politikaları, işletmenin hedefleri ve coğrafi konumu farklı kriterler kullanılabilmektedir. Sürdürülebilir kalkınmanın ekonomik, çevresel ve sosyal boyutlarının tedarik zinciri yönetimine entegrasyonuyla gelişen sürdürülebilir tedarik zinciri yönetiminde tedarikçi seçimiyle bu boyutlar arasındaki denge oluşturularak muhtemel sorunları üstesinden gelinebilir. Bu çalışmada araç üstü ekipman sektöründe faaliyet gösteren bir işletmenin sürdürülebilir tedarikçi seçim problemi Bulanık Çıkarım Sistemlerinin Mamdani-tipi Bulanık Çıkarım Sistem yaklaşımı kullanılarak yeni bir model önerilmiştir. Önerilen modelde tedarikçilerin sürdürülebilirlik düzeyi ve performans düzeyi aynı kurallara bağlı olarak eş zamanlı olarak hesaplanmıştır. Daha sonra tedarikçilerin sürdürülebilirlik ve performans düzeylerine göre işletme tedarikçiler sıralaması yapılmıştır. Ayrıca önerilen modeldeki kurallar kullanılarak sürdürülebilirlik ve performans düzeyleri için aynı kriterler arasında farklı öncelik sıralamasının olduğu belirlenmiştir.

Keywords

Bulanık Çıkarım Sistem, Sürdürülebilir Tedarik Zinciri, Tedarikçi Seçimi

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