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Sustainable supply chains: An introduction
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In this paper, the focus on environmental management and operations is moved from local optimization of environmental factors to consideration of the entire supply chain during the production, consumption, customer service and post-disposal disposition of products.About:
This article is published in Journal of Operations Management.The article was published on 2007-11-01. It has received 1593 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supply chain sustainability & Supply chain.read more
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Economic and environmental comparison of grouping strategies in coordinated multi-item inventory systems
Dincer Konur,Brian Schaefer +1 more
TL;DR: This study revisits the well-known deterministic joint replenishment problem (JRP) with economic and environmental objectives under indirect and direct grouping strategies and forms and develops solution methods for each bi-objective JRP.
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Sustainable transportation and order quantity: insights from multiobjective optimization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply multiobjective optimization to show how the tradeoffs between cost and carbon emissions may be obtained in the context of sustainable operations, where transportation mode selection and order quantity decisions are considered jointly.
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Impacts of Power Structure on Sustainable Supply Chain Management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the manufacturer's operational decisions, e.g., wholesale price and product sustainability level, the retailer's operational decision, and supply chain efficiency under three supply chain power structures.
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Effects of Consumer Demand, Product Lifetime, and Substitution Ratio on Perishable Inventory Management
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of uncertain consumer demand, product lifetimes, and consumer substitution among the product range on inventory performance were investigated. And the authors provided recommendations for managers who are facing uncertainties of consumer demand and substitution, and product lifetime.
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Fragmented institutional fields and their impact on manufacturing environmental practices
TL;DR: The findings show that institutional pressures at the regional market level influence both types of manufacturing environmental practices, and explicitly identified AEPs that lead to market growth and T EPs that create environmental improvement.
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Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
TL;DR: The seven revolutions for sustainable capitalism: competition, competition, triple win revolution, values from me to we revolution, information and transparency, no hiding place revolution, lifecylces from conception to resurrection revolution, partnerships after the honeymoon revolution, time three scenarios revolution, corporate governance, stake in the future, sustainability transition, value shifts, value migrations the worlds of money and power, sustainability audit, how are you placed.
Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate
TL;DR: The Dutch flower industry has responded to its environmental problems by developing a closed-loop system to reduce the risk of infestation, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides, and improving product quality as mentioned in this paper.
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Life cycle assessment: Part 1: Framework, goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, and applications
Gerald Rebitzer,Tomas Ekvall,Rolf Frischknecht,D Hunkeler,Gregory A. Norris,Tomas Rydberg,W-P Schmidt,Sangwon Suh,Bo Pedersen Weidema,David Pennington +9 more
TL;DR: The LCA framework and procedure is introduced, how to define and model a product's life cycle is outlined, and an overview of available methods and tools for tabulating and compiling associated emissions and resource consumption data in a life cycle inventory (LCI) is provided.
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Relationships between operational practices and performance among early adopters of green supply chain management practices in chinese manufacturing enterprises
Qinghua Zhu,Joseph Sarkis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and environmental and economic performance in Chinese manufacturing enterprises, and investigated how two primary types of management operations philosophies, quality management and just-in-time (or lean) manufacturing principles, influence the relationships between GSCM practices and performance.
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