Green supplier selection by means of a decision making method based on ELICIT information (SS14: New trends in decision making and computing with words)

Supplier selection is the process of selecting, based on several criteria, a proper supplier to get the necessary materials to support companies outputs. However, the environmental situation in the world is becoming more delicate and countries force companies to comply with several green policies. For this reason, the supplier selection has evolved to the green supplier selection, in which environmental criteria are considered. Multi-criteria decision making models have been applied to solve supplier selection problems but, these proposals do not provide a proper modeling of the information either in inputs and/or outputs. This paper aims to apply the ELICIT linguistic model in green supplier selection in order to obtain precise and understandable results by overcoming previous proposals.