Green Supplier Selection Criteria:From a Literature Review to a Flexible Framework for Determination of Suitable Criteria

Green supplier selection (GSS) criteria arise from an organizationinclination to respond to any existing trends in environmental issues related tobusiness management and processes, so GSS is integrating environmental thinkinginto conventional supplier selection. This research is designed to determine prevalentgeneral and environmental supplier selection criteria and develop aframework which can help decision makers to determine and prioritize suitablegreen supplier selection criteria (general and environmental). In this research weconsidered several parameters (evaluation objectives) to establish suitable criteriafor GSS such as their production type, requirements, policy and objectives insteadof applying common criteria. At first a comprehensive and deep review on prevalentand green supplier selection literatures performed. Then several evaluationobjectives defined to assess the green supplier selection criteria include: frequency,compatibility, quantifiable, easy to understand and assessment. By developedframework suitable criteria can be selected using multi attribute decision makingmethods. The main contribution of this research is developing a framework to helpmanagers for creating their green supplier criteria list