Track: Sustainability and Green System

Abstract

Currently, the garment industry in Bangladesh accounts for 78% of all foreign revenues. This industry employs more than 4.2 million people, and there are roughly 5000 garment manufacturers located all throughout the nation. About 80% of the employees are women, and they work from dawn to dusk or, in cases where working conditions are subpar.  In many cases, companies lack facilities for child care, health care, and sufficient training. Competitiveness and uncertainties are increasing because of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) as well as climate change. Amelioration in the global market could be fulfilled by practicing sustainable manufacturing in production. Sustainability or sustainable development in manufacturing and services has attracted the attention of various business practitioners. The concept of sustainable manufacturing (SM) is becoming increasingly mature due to the focus on many of its research topics for a long time. In this connection, this research study has been conducted with the purpose of identifying the most important key performance indicators (KPIs) of SM for the apparel industry. To measure the importance or priority ranking of these KPIs, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method has been used. Finally, all the KPIs have been evaluated with respect to the subjected field and a ranking has been performed amongst the relevant KPIs based on the global priority vector.