Sustainable and Resilient Supplier Selection in Circular Economy Framwork: Trends and Perspectives

Over the years, supplier selection was a critical strategic decision in the organization. Due to several circumstances and factors, this decision should meet many criteria. In this context, this paper presents a systematic literature review on sustainable and resilient supplier selection. The purpose is to identify key elements supporting the evaluation of suppliers based on sustainable, circular and resilient criteria. Seventy articles were collected and analyzed in different dimensions such as criteria, methods, validation and case studies. The findings highlight an increasing focus on supplier selection problem in the last three years. In addition, the results revealed that sustainable criteria are the most appearing. The combination of multiple methods in an uncertain environment is most employed by authors. Moreover, an important number of models are validated in a real-world case study. The presented outcomes can accompany academics and managers to develop a selection and evaluation supplier model ensuring sustainability, circularity and resilience in supply chain. Future researches could focus on analyzing intensively the studied dimensions.