Developments in environmental issues in the last few years have been forcing manufacturing companies to improve their environmental performances. Many firms developed integrated relationships with their suppliers to increase their environmental performance and to decrease their hazardous effects on the environment. Then, selecting suitable and green suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. A performance evaluation system for green suppliers is necessary to determine the suitability of suppliers to cooperate with the firm. Therefore, in this study, a model for evaluating green performance of suppliers is proposed, and a hybrid multicriteria decision making model is developed in order to evaluate green performance of the suppliers. The analytical network process technique is applied to handle the relationships and dependence of selection criteria and subcriteria and determine weights of the criteria. The technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution is used to sequence the suppliers for ideal solution of the suppliers’ green performance evaluation problem. After a comprehensive literature survey, evaluation criteria of green performance for suppliers are determined. Finally, green performance of 18 suppliers of an automobile company was evaluated by this model. These 18 suppliers manufacture chassis and its components. 1. Introduction In recent years, because of growing worldwide awareness of environmental protection, increasing government regulations, and stronger public awareness in environmental protection, firms today cannot disregard environmental issues, and they have to pay attention to environmental issues in order to survive in the global market [1]. Therefore, in the world, there is a growing interest in the green supply chain management (GSCM), and the green issue has become more and more critical in supply chain management (SCM) [2]. Over the last decade linking supply chain activities and environmental issues such as green purchasing, reverse logistics, product stewardship, and design for the environment have been a topic of interest among many manufacturing organizations [3]. In order to decrease hazardous environmental effects, firms have been forced to improve their environmental issues like decreasing hazardous impacts of their products, their manufacturing processes, logistics processes, and so forth [4]. Environmental performance of a company can be determined by its own environmental efforts and environmental performance of its suppliers. For manufacturing industries, green manufacturing
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