Provide an integrated mathematical planning model for selecting and allocating orders for biomass power plant green suppliers
Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 2017, Pages 1-15
Maysam Nasrollahi, Mahdi Hakimiasl, Alireza Hakimiasl, Abbas Keramati
Abstract Widespread environmental degradation and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases have raised environmental concerns among communities and governments. One of the ways to reduce environmental pollution is to implement a green supply chain. In this study, the selection of green suppliers of biomass power plant equipment and how to allocate demand to them as one of the key strategic decisions of the supply chain has been investigated. Due to the multiplicity of criteria in this issue, using pairwise comparison methods for weighting will not be effective. In the proposed integrated model, the principal component analysis method is used to meet this challenge. Finally, using a multi-objective mathematical planning model, the amount of demand allocation to each supplier is determined. The proposed method was used to select green suppliers of Shiraz biomass power plant equipment. The results show the efficiency of the proposed model for selecting green suppliers of biomass power plant equipment.