Evaluating Green Performance of Suppliers via Analytic Network Process and TOPSIS

Table 1

Criteria used to evaluate green suppliers.

Author(s)	Azzone and Noci, 1996 [42]	Noci, 1997; [4]	Humpreys et al., 2003 [30]	Zhu and Sarkis, 2004 [43]	Humphreys et al., 2003; [31]	Tuzkaya et al., 2009 [10]	Lee et al., 2009 [1]	Kuo et al., 2010 [2]	Bai and Sarkis, 2010 [12]	Fu et al., 2012 [14]	Büyüközkan and Çiftçi, 2012 [5]
Evaluation criteria	(i) “External” environmental effectiveness; (ii) Environmental efficiency; (iii) “Green” image; (iv) Environmental flexibility	(i) Green competencies; (ii) Current environmental efficiency; (iii) Supplier’s green image; (iv) Net life cycle cost	(i) Environmental competencies; (ii) Management decisions; (iii) Green image; (iv) Design for environment; (v) Environmental management system	(i) Internal environmental management; (ii) ISO 14001 certification; (iii) External GSCM practices; (iv) Investment recovery; (v) Ecodesign	(i) Environmental costs (pollutant effects); (ii) Environmental costs (improvement); (iii) Management competencies; (iv) Green image; (v) Design for environment; (vi) Environmental management systems; (vii) Environmental competencies	(i) Pollution control,; (ii) Green process management; (iii) Environmental and legislative management; (iv) Environmental costs; (v) Green product; (vi) Green image	(i) Quality; (ii) Technological capability; (iii) Total product life cycle cost; (iv) Green image; (v) Pollution control; (vi) Environmental management; (vii) Green product; (viii) Green competence	(i) Quality; (ii) Cost; (iii) Delivery; (iv) Service; (v) Corporate social responsibility; (vi) Environment	(i) Green knowledge transfer and communication; (ii) Investment and knowledge transfer; (iii) Management and organizational practices	(i) Green knowledge transfer and communication; (ii) Investment and resource transfer; (iii) Management and organizational practices	(i) Organization; (ii) Financial performance; (iii) Service quality; (iv) Technology; (v) Green competencies
Focus of; the study	Evaluate the environmental; performance of a; company’s existing operation system	Evaluate suppliers’ environmental performance	Evaluation of supplier performance and environmental issues		Evaluate suppliers’ environmental performance	Evaluation of suppliers environmental performance		Selecting of green suppliers	Evaluating green supplier development programs for organizations
Industry	An illustrative example	An illustrative example	An illustrative example		An illustrative example	White goods manufacturer Turkey	LTF-LCD industry; Taiwan	Electronic company; Taiwan	An illustrative example	Telecommunications equipment provider; China	Automotive industry; Turkey
Evaluation methods	Comparison of some techniques such as AHP, scoring methods, and DCF techniques		Knowledge-based system		Knowledge-based systems (KBS) and case-based reasoning (CBR), multi-attribute analysis (MAA)	A hybrid fuzzy analytic network process and fuzzy PROMETHEE	Delphi method and the fuzzy extended AHP	Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and ANP	Rough set theory