An integrated analytic hierarchy process—slack based measure-data envelopment analysis model for evaluating the efficiency of logistics service providers considering undesirable performance criteria

Bajec, Patricija (author), Tuljak Suban, Danijela (author)

Sustainable concerns are reputed to be of the utmost priority among governments. Consequently, they have become more and more of a concern among supply chain partners. Logistics service providers (LPs), as significant contributors to supply chain success but also one of the greatest generator of emissions, play a significant role in reducing the negative environmental impact. Thus, the performance evaluations of LPs should necessarily involve such a measure which, firstly, represents a balance between all three pillars of sustainability and, secondly, consider the desirable and undesirable performance criteria. This paper proposes an integrated analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and slack-based measure (SBM) data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, based on the assumption of a variable return to scale (VRS). An AHP pairwise comparison enables selecting the most influential input/output variables. Output-oriented SBM DEA provides simultaneously evaluation of both the undesirable and desirable outputs. The proposed model was tested on a numerical example of 18 LPs. The comparison of output Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR) and SBM DEA models resulted in a higher number of inefficient LPs when the SBM DEA model was applied. Moreover, efficiency scores of inefficient LPs were lower in SBM DEA model. The proposed model is fair to those LPs that are environmentally friendly.

• Language: English
• Keywords: logistics service provider, LP, measuring efficiency, sustainable efficiency, data envelopment analysis, DEA, slack based measure, SBM, undesirable performance criteria
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FPP - Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 11, iss. 8, art. 2330
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-132355
• UDC: 005.51:517
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su11082330
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2910051
• Publication date in RUL: 22.10.2021

BAJEC, Patricija and TULJAK SUBAN, Danijela, 2019, An integrated analytic hierarchy process—slack based measure-data envelopment analysis model for evaluating the efficiency of logistics service providers considering undesirable performance criteria. Sustainability [online]. 2019. Vol. 11, no. 8,  2330. [Accessed 16 March 2025]. DOI 10.3390/su11082330. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=132355

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• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: logistične storitve, merjenje učinkovitosti, trajnostni razvoj, zajemanje podatkov, merila, analize