Technology selection for sustainable supply chains

Supply chain sustainability has been highlighted as a precursor for sustainable manufacturing and sustainable development. Manufacturing firms are considered sustainable as long as their supply chains are also sustainable. The supply chain sustainability in manufacturing firms usually involves a wide range of stakeholders, within and outside the organization. Decision making for technology selection under sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) environment involves interaction among economic, environmental and societal factors in addition to quality, manufacturing flexibility, supply chain competitiveness, and customer satisfaction. To find a balance between different stakeholders’ preferences and often contradicting factors, creating optimal sustainable values for all of them makes the decision-making process much more complex. This study presents the list of critical factors for SSCM. The managerial implications of the result exhibit the development of a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model for sustainable technology selection by developing an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model through simplified calculations.