Circularity assessment of logistics activities for green business performance management

Abstract

The population of the world is increasing and product demand is increasing making a linear economy ineffective and therefore this situation makes the circular economy (CE) a requirement. Economic social and environmental factors all play a role in the CE. Also logistics activities are critical parts of the CE. Hence this study's goal is to create a framework for evaluating organizations' CE logistics performance. The main contribution of the study is the creation of a framework to assess the circularity performance including various logistics activities and measure the performance of logistics activities. To establish a list of criteria 30 experts were interviewed. The criteria were ranked using fuzzy statements. The selected multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method data envelopment analysis is applied using IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio version 20.1.0.