Abstract

Supply chain managers are under pressure to accommodate multiple demands in their decision-making processes, including considering environmentally friendly, resilient, and digitally integrated supply chains. However, a supplier selection and order allocation (SS/OA) solution that integrates such demands has not yet been identified. Thus, this article proposes a framework that integrates digitalization, economic, green, and resilient SS/OA criteria and tests this framework using multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) algorithms and multi-objective optimization approach methodologies. The applied methodologies can help purchasing managers to better evaluate suppliers based on multiple criteria and take direct action towards improving priority areas and order allocation. For example, a multi-tier supply chain approach is necessary to navigate multiple demands. This article advances the current debate on supplier selection by proposing and testing an integrated framework, called ‘digitalized econogresilience’. This econogresilience is a portmanteau word created by combining the terms "economic", “green” and "resilience," and it describes the ability of an economic system, organization, or society to absorb shocks, adapt, and recover from them while preserving or swiftly recovering its stability and usefulness while remaining green.