Sustainability Evaluation of Textile Warehouses from Social and Environmental Perspective

Abstract

Growing complexity in supply chains has increased the importance of warehousing activities more and more with each passing year. This study focuses on textile warehouses where fluctuations in demand is high and sustainability concerns are growing due to high production and consumption rates. With this view aim is to present social and environmental sustainability criteria for textile warehouses and present the relationship between them in order to guide sustainability transformation of textile warehouses. Social and environmental aspects of sustainability are considered as a core subject based on company needs that are determined in the light of meetings performed with company experts and the literature review made on environmental and social sustainability perspective. After that interviews were held with the company to specialize the criteria for textile warehouses. Finally fuzzy DEMATEL method was used to present the importance order and causal relationship between criteria for implications. At the end of the implementations metrics were determined for each criterion and recommendations were made to create a roadmap for the company. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.