Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal (Dec 2023)

Enhancing the cosmetics industry sustainability through a renewed sustainable supplier selection model

  • Federica Acerbi,
  • Roberto Rocca,
  • Luca Fumagalli,
  • Marco Taisch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2022.2161021
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1

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ABSTRACTThe cosmetics industry requires a long-term sustainable strategy to balance its continuously growing trend worldwide and its resources consumption. In this view, the suppliers’ selection process is gaining more attention affecting products’ overall sustainability. The objective of this contribution is hence to develop and validate the Cosmetics Sustainable Supplier Selection (C-SSS) model allowing the selection of sustainable suppliers for the cosmetic industry, evaluating them in an objective and balanced manner. The model was built relying on both scientific and grey literature, by incorporating the characteristics of existing SSS models usually used separately. The C-SSS enabled to integrate the EMM approach (to reduce the subjectivity), the ANP approach (to evaluate criteria interconnections), and the TOPSIS and ELECTRE models (to create a hybrid compensation model) to support managers in objectively selecting the most sustainable suppliers. The C-SSS model was applied and validated through an industrial use case in a cosmetics Italian company.

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