چكيده به لاتين
Designing a resilient and sustainable supply chain has turned into a topic of major concern for many organizations, particularly for countries dealing with political and economic situations like Iran. This study is carried out with the aim of selecting a supplier with respect to sustainability and resilience criteria in steel industry over the course of which a new criterion has been identified to evaluate the suppliers apart from the mentioned criteria. Although a large number of publications have been dedicated to the field of supplier selection, the issue has not been, by far, studied in terms of resilience criteria in steel industry. Moreover, hardly ever have economic, social, environmental and resilience criteria been taken into consideration together in the literature.
In this study, the appropriate criteria and sub-criteria for supplier selection in the steel industry have been identified based on the review of literature and the opinions of experts considering the resilience factor. Besides, a new criterion, the dimension of the supplier’s lifecycle value, along with its associated sub-criteria has been introduced. Afterwards, a new framework has been submitted to select and evaluate the suppliers in which the impact of sub-criteria on one another was examined using the Interpretive structural modeling (ISM), after which the associated key sub-criteria were selected. Then, the Best Worst Method (BWM) was used to weigh the key sub-criteria, ultimately followed by ranking and evaluating the suppliers by means of the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS).
Khuzestan Oxin Steel Corporation has selected as the case study to demonstrate the performance of this framework. In the final stage, a comparative analysis was performed. The results show that considering the resilience criteria and the new criteria introduced in the evaluation of the suppliers can lead to far better outcomes both in the ranking stage done by multiple attribute decision making methods and in the order allocation stage. Managers of different industries, especially in the steel industry, can benefit from this study to deal with problems regarding supplier selection.
