Supplier selection: A green approach with carbon footprint monitoring

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Supplier selection: A green approach with carbon footprint monitoring

Year : 2010

Source Title : SCMIS 2010 - Proceedings of 2010 8th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems: Logistics Systems and Engineering

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Abstract

As the climate change movement gathers momentum, there’s a pressing need to assess suppliers based on their environmental performance along with other criteria for supplier selection. The objective of this paper is to propose a comprehensive approach for suppliers’ selection, which cuts across a huge variety of supplier base, caters to almost all businesses, is environmentfriendly and robust The approach encourages suppliers to go green and cut down their carbon footprints in order to survive the competition.