An integrated, multi-criteria approach based on environmental, economic, social, and competency criteria for supplier selection

Supplier selection (SS), which is a critical stage of supply chain management (SCM), no longer evaluated solely from the perspective traditional criteria, due to increasing environmental problems and ethical concerns. In this study, multidimensional approach including environmental, economic, social, competency concepts was proposed evaluate SS, an integrated based on Best Worst Method (BWM) fuzzy TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese Interactive Multi-criteria Decision Making) techniques developed. developed approach, BWM used first obtain importance level criteria then rank suppliers with TODIM. The tested automotive company Turkey. outcomes analysis revealed that most important main for SS are economic (0.377) (0.290). addition, sub-criteria highest weight were listed as product cost (0.120), on-time delivery (0.112), quality control (0.094), logistics costs (0.069), commitment (0.054), flexibility (0.054). results study offer theoretical practical outputs companies want improve their process, suppliers, contributions researchers working topic.