Supplier Selection in Plastic Products Manufacturing MSMEs Using a Combined Traditional and Green Criteria Based on AHP and Fuzzy AHP

The concept of green supply chain management looks renewed concept and attracted a lot of interest in the context of current manufacturing practices worldwide. The core attempt is to find an optimum path between industrialization and conservational protection. The initial phase in completing this task is to reconsider the basic form of supplier assessment in supply chain and correspondingly include the environmental worries related with reduction of waste and use of other natural resources. The purpose of this study was to detect the traditional and green supplier evaluation criteria taken together, which are considered vital across the plastic products manufacturing MSMEs in India. The study employed a combined traditional and green supplier selection model, using AHP and fuzzy AHP approaches. In this study, eight main criteria and 40 sub-criteria were used for supplier selection. Results show that the plastic manufacturing companies focus more on cost, quality, and environmental manufacturing management as part of traditional and green supplier selection criteria in selection of supplier.