Supply Chain Design by Integrating Multicriteria Decision Analysis and a Sustainability Approach

The rising interest in embedding environmental practices into operations management has reshaped supply chain management research and practice into a new landscape. Considerations must be made with respect to the entire supply chain from the production, consumption, and customer service stages to the post-disposal disposition of products. This comprehensive focus has led to the revolution of Green Supply Chain Management. The aim of the present work is to propose a systematic approach that a firm may use to evaluate its own supply chain environmental performances. The approach integrates index methods for Environmental Performance Evaluation (EPE) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with a multi-criteria model based on the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and BOCR Analysis (Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks). A key aspect of the model is the consideration of environmental directives such as the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances to evaluate and prioritize which green initiatives with respect to environmental performance