DEA Sustainability Evaluation in Automotive Supply Chains

Abstract

The question of sustainability evaluation in global supply chains is often answered qualitatively with standards and status evaluations. However, dedicated management requires also quantitative approaches to evaluate the existing situation adequately. By applying a quantitative approach, this research work considers the global automotive supply chains with a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) sustainability evaluation and matching key performance indicators. In this setting, 13 automotive companies are analyzed for three different years 2015 to 2017. Results show that different OEMs are featuring very distinctive sustainability settings and results – deriving also optimization potential in comparison to the other companies.