ABSTRACT
The growing concern of stakeholders towards the environmental and social impact of procurement networks has amplified the importance of the incorporation of sustainability in automobile spare parts (ASP) manufacturing companies in India. This has led several ASP manufacturing enterprises to explore the possibility of supply chain collaboration with suppliers to effectively manage raw materials and components. With each partner aiming at a common goal of achieving sustainability, collaboration becomes an effective strategy in reaching the desirable sustainability level under pressure from various sources, such as the government, customers, etc. In this context, the first step for the manufacturer is to understand the list of motivational factors (MFs) that put pressure on the integration of sustainable collaboration with suppliers. Furthermore, we need to find the vital role of MFs in sustainable collaboration with the help of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). However, to make the process of selection less cumbersome and more effective, it is essential to use a MCDM approach which uses a smaller set of comparisons to facilitate easy computation. The novelty of this paper, therefore, lies in the use of the best–worst methodology (BWM) to identify the most critical MFs for the inclusion of sustainability as per the decision-maker’s opinion.
Keywords: Sustainable supplier collaboration, analysis, motivational factors, automobile industries, India, best–worst methodology
