Analysing barriers of sustainable supply chain in apparel & textile sector: A hybrid ISM-MICMAC and DEMATEL approach

Apparel and textile sector is one of the most polluting sectors. It is majorly responsible for air, water, soil pollution and other negative effect. To counter this, implementing the sustainability practices play the major role. This study identified the various barriers that hinders, implementation of sustainability across the different stages of supply chain management. Moreover, opinion from the experts is taken for distinguishing the critical barriers. ISM and fuzzy MICMAC decision making techniques are used for the identification of critical barriers. It was found out that Communication gap among stakeholders, Barriers that effect performance of this sector, Lack of training and education about sustainability, Capacity constraints and Lack of reverse logistics practices are the critical barriers of sustainable supply chain management. In addition to this DEMATEL is used to classified the barriers into two groups i,e cause based and effect based. It was found out that all the cause-based barriers are exactly match with level 5 barriers of ISM model. DEMATEL method support the result of ISM and fuzzy MICMAC technique-based result. This study is useful for industry professional and managers in the Apparel & Textile sector.