Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable Supply Chains

Author: Yann Bouchery

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 3319297910

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This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side. Finding efficient solutions towards a more sustainable supply chain is increasingly important for managers, but clearly this raise difficult questions, often without clear answers. This book aims to provide insights into these kinds of questions for students and practitioners, based on the latest academic research.

Tools, Methodologies and Techniques Applied to Sustainable Supply Chains
Tools, Methodologies and Techniques Applied to Sustainable Supply Chains

Author: Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 3039283189

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Supply chains are currently globalized and companies operate internationally owing to the fact that raw materials, production processes, and the consumption of the final products are carried out in different countries. This implies high material and information flow, which incurs high costs associated with the supply chain and logistics, sometimes up to 60% of the total cost of the product. Therefore, companies seek to optimize their resources to reduce these costs and improve sustainability in a globalized market. This book, entitled Tools, Methodologies and Techniques Applied to Sustainable Supply Chains, contains 15 chapters that report case studies applied to industrial and service sectors. The authors come from areas such as Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, China, and Australia. They indicate how managers make use of tools and techniques to solve problems associated with supply chains to reduce their cost and remain competitive. A great effort has been made to analyze this problem, and the methodologies are clearly described here to facilitate the reproducibility of each technique and tool. This was done in the hope that hoping that they may one day be applied in more companies.

Environmental Management
Environmental Management

Author: Christina W.Y. Wong

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 3319236814

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In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance. The book consists of six chapters covering such topics as environmental management, environmental management practices with supply chain efforts, collaborative environmental management, organizational capabilities in environmental management, environmental disclosure, and closed-loop supply chains. The book presents theory-driven discussions on the link between environmental management and business performance in the context of supply chain management. The book will be useful for firms to learn from the research findings and real-life cases to develop plans to implement environmental management practices jointly with supply chain partners.

Efficiency in Sustainable Supply Chain
Efficiency in Sustainable Supply Chain

Author: Paulina Golinska-Dawson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-04

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 3319464515

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The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability. The research and its outcomes presented here provide theoretical and empirical studies on efficiency analysis in the supply chain, including operational, economic, environmental and social aspects. This book sheds new light on the efficiency-assessment framework for practitioners and includes essential tips on how to improve the sustainability of supply-chains operations.

Environmental Issues in Supply Chain Management
Environmental Issues in Supply Chain Management

Author: Paulina Golinska

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-06-06

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 364223562X

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The aim of the book is to present the emerging environmental issues in organization and management of complex supply chains. The book includes set of solutions which show different stakeholders' viewpoints on sustainability. The scope of book takes into consideration how the emerging environmental regulation might be transformed into business practices. Therefore, the authors present the innovative approach to eco-friendly organization and coordination of logistics processes and supply chain configuration. A broad scope of practical solutions from different countries and industries is provided

Green Supply Chains
Green Supply Chains

Author: Stuart Emmett

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-03

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0470689412

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This book answers the following five fundamental questions: What are the tangible and intangible benefits of moving towards a green supply chain? What are the costs, both direct and indirect? What influence do we have over our suppliers, their suppliers and our customers that would allow us to jointly work together and move the supply chain towards a green supply chain? How will we communicate and measure our progress towards the green supply chain to the key stakeholders? How will we engage them? What barriers to green supply chains can be expected and how can these be overcome? For all those responsible for steering supply chain decisions this book will be an invaluable asset, particularly as the 'greening of business' grows ever important.

Design for Environment as a Tool for the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain
Design for Environment as a Tool for the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain

Author: Maurizio Bevilacqua

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1447124618

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Environmental Design is becoming an increasingly significant agenda for many manufacturing companies and yet there is no standard to their approaches, strategies or their levels of execution. Applying Design for Environment (DfE) methodologies to develop a more sustainable supply chain has formed procedures and techniques which allow designers to integrate these methods with environmental supply chain management. Design for Environment as a Tool for the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain aims to define relevant target specifications for a product throughout its life cycle; from conception and design to the end of its operating life. Be considering this new approach to the supply chain, environmental responsiveness can work in tandem with sounds business management. The usual focus on suppliers, manufacturers and customers is expanded in Design for Environment as a Tool for the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain to include stakeholders such as government bodies and recycling companies. The influence of these additional groups is analyzed alongside concepts such as: Product life cycle development aimed at environmental impact minimization; Supplier selection and management based on environmental criteria; and Marketing and communication choices which increase the value of environmentally sensitive products. By including several case studies alongside theoretical topics, Design for Environment as a Tool for the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chains acts as a foundation for professionals across the supply chain, from industrial designers to marketing and sales departments, who are involved in environmental issues.

Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management
Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management

Author: Sadia Samar Ali

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1787562174

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Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management uses present case studies from the Indian and Mexican manufacturing industries to offer new insights on the challenges of integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management operations in developing countries.