Social impacts profile of suppliers: a S-LCA approach

There is a large scientific literature that addresses the supplier selection problem (SSP). However, the majority of the papers are focused in the economic dimension and do not consider the other dimensions of the sustainability, the environmental and the social ones. Evaluate the environmental and the social dimensions is hard to be done and it is necessary to use the appropriate tools to realize it. The life cycle assessment (LCA) can be applied for this purpose. This paper aims to present a model to generate the social suppliers' profiles in order to support the decision-making process. This model allows the identification of the issues that must be addressed to improve the benefits of the biodiesel use in social dimension. The environmental dimension was not included in this paper. This model was created to analyze the biofuels' suppliers of a transportation society in Canada.