Multi-criteria decision-making methods in green supplier selection

The concept of "green", which has gained importance in many areas today, with the increase of environmentalist and conscious consumers, their tendency to use environmentally friendly products, the depletion of natural resources, environmental pollution, the increase of unconsciously generated wastes, legal procedures, social responsibility, it has directed businesses that aim to increase their market share depending on competition, to implement green supply chain activities. The most important factor for businesses to continue their activities in the green supply chain, which includes the delivery of the product to the consumer, starting from production, is supplier selection. Working with the right green supplier for businesses is of great importance in socially, environmentally and economically. In this study, green supplier selection was made for a logistics company. For green supplier selection; A sample application has been made using multi-criteria decision-making methods. In practice, eight criteria to be considered for green supplier selection were determined and weighted with the CRITIC Method, one of the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods. The most suitable green supplier was selected for the logistics company by using the found criterion weights CoCoSo Method. Keywords: Green Supply Chain, Supply chain, Logistics, Supplier Selection, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, CoCoSo, CRITIC.