Prioritizing the responses to manage risks in green supply chain An Indian plastic manufacturer perspective》.pdf

S U S T A I N A B L E P R O D U C T I O N A N D C O N S U M P T I O N 1 ( 2 0 1 5 ) 6 7 – 8 6 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Sustainable Production and Consumption journal homepage: /locate/spc Prioritizing the responses to manage risks in green supply chain: An Indian plastic manufacturer perspective Sachin K. Manglaa,∗, Pradeep Kumar a, Mukesh Kumar Barua b a Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India b Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India A B S T R A C T Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has become a very useful initiative for industries to improve their environmental capabilities in terms of, reducing resources consumption and ensuring sustainable production in business. However, the effectiveness of Green Supply Chain (GSC) is comparatively low, as there has been a substantial amount of risk involved in managing GSC efficiently. In this contribution, therefore, we aim to identify and prioritize/rank the responses of risks in a GSC context. It would be useful for industries to focus on highly ranked responses and formulate strategies to practice them in accordance with their priority for managing the consequences of risks in GSC. The present research seeks to propose a model by using the fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and fuzzy Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methods to prioritize the responses in GSC to manage its risks under the fuzzy environment. The fuzzy AHP is us