Partner Selection Model for Green Supply Chain

Partner selection is the key element for green supply chain management. The green and sustainability criteria should be considered in partner selection problem. In the paper, a green selection framework is described, and then a two-stage partner selection model is proposed with large number of potential companies and the complex selection processes. Hence the specific selection approach for each stage is designed. Especially at the accurate selection stage, in order to finish multi-objective optimization at the same time, A Pareto-cat swarm algorithm is programmed.