MEASUREMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY BY USING A MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHOD

The concept of sustainability has been well fitted to the aim of industrial applications for managing limited resources and producing with minimum harm to environment. From this aspect, importance of sustainable manufacturing and monitoring environmental impact has been increased rapidly for both researchers and decision makers. Therefore, there is a need to measure "sustainability" with its three aspects such as environmental, economic and social dimensions. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods provide a useful framework for measuring and the evaluation of sustainability performance. This paper presents a study based on the data related with environmental factors for assessing a company's production performance from the aspect of sustainability by concentrating on a corporate group in textile industry. TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method is adopted and data from annual reports of Inditex Group is used while assessing sustainability performance.