Sustainability risk management in the supply chain of telecommunication companies: A case study

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652618325174?via%3Dihub

Fatemeh Valinejad, Donya Rahmani,

Sustainability risk management in the supply chain of telecommunication companies: A case study,

Journal of Cleaner Production,

Volume 203,

2018,

Pages 53-67,

ISSN 0959-6526,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.174.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652618325174)

Abstract: Given the tendency of the world production and service organizations towards the development of a sustainable supply chain, the lack of concern for sustainability risks threatens the future of organizations. In this paper, a comprehensive and credible framework is proposed for managing the sustainability risks of the supply chain for telecommunications companies, based on a new approach to sustainability. In fact, the risks on different echelons of the telecommunication supply chain were identified based on a five-dimensional approach to the sustainability as a strong well-known method. As a case study, some major Iranian internet service providers were studied and analyzed to this approach by using failure mode and effects analysis method. After identifying the root causes and potential consequences of each risk, a treatment was proposed based on the capacities of the industry. As a result, the most dangerous sustainability risks in the considered telecommunication companies are technical and institutional ones, which account for almost 66% of the critical risks. Also, suppliers with a 53% share of critical risks are the most threatening to sustain the supply chain in these companies. The proposed framework, which is not only used by managers and experts in the telecommunications industry, but can also it can be adjusted to any other industry by related managers to maintain the sustainability of the supply chain performance in the long term. Furthermore, it can serve as a platform for future research in this field for researchers.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Risk management; Supply chain; FMEA analysis; Telecommunications companies

Integrating sustainability into supplier selection with analytical hierarchy process and improved grey relational analysis: a case of telecom industry

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-016-9518-z

Abstract

Supplier selection is one of the critical problems in supply chain systems. Within the last decades, by the emergence of sustainability concept, companies have been motivated to enhance their supplier’s sustainability and move toward sustainable development. This paper proposes a structured and integrated decision model for evaluating sustainable suppliers in the context of telecom industry by combining analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and improved grey relational analysis (IGRA) approaches. The proposed model employs AHP for calculating sustainability criteria weights and IGRA for ranking suppliers. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis is also performed to demonstrate the robustness of the model. In this research, the sustainable supplier selection problem of the telecom industry in the southern part of Iran was investigated, showing the effectiveness and applicability of this proposed integrated approach.