TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kuo, Jun-Yuan 
AU  - Shia, Ben-Chang 
AU  - Chen, Yun-Chin 
AU  - Ho, Jou-Ying 
PY  - 2011
TI  - Evaluating the Green Suppliers of the Printed Circuit Board Factories Base on the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Vlsekriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje
JF  - American Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
DO  - 10.3844/ajassp.2011.246.253
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2011.246.253
AB  - Problem statement: The “Energy Policy for Europe, EPE” and three environmental
directives, proposed by the European Union (EU) in 2007, are stricter than those self-restrained by the
enterprises. For this reason, the enterprises have to shortly improve their products for meeting with the
strict requests setup by the EU. Consequently, it becomes even more important that the manufacturers
evaluate the green suppliers. Approach: Through arranging the index literatures for evaluating the
green suppliers and applying the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and the Vlsekriterijumska
Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) in this study, it will be discussed that the Printed
Circuit Board (PCB) company in this case study evaluates and assesses the performances of three types
of green suppliers (the suppliers of processing machine tools, the suppliers of raw materials and the
suppliers of maintenance spare parts). The weight of performance indicators was derived by FAHP
method, which were input to the VIKOR method for evaluate the performance of three types of green
suppliers. Results: The research results, which the company in this case study assessed at the suppliers
of the equipment machine tools, the raw materials and the spare parts, show that the satisfaction of the
suppliers of raw materials is superior to the suppliers of equipment machine tools and even better than
that of the suppliers of spare parts. Conclusion/Recommendations: The feasibility green supplier of
performance evaluation method was presented through a real scenario, which can help the PCB
procurements make objectively and distinguish the disadvantages and advantages of the green suppliers.