Journal ArticleDOI
Sustainable supply chains: An introduction
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Design for the Environment: Life-Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a profit maximizing firm deciding on the production quantity as well as its environmentally focused design efforts, and focus on two dimensions of demand characteristics and life-cycle environmental impact levels, specifically functional vs. innovative products, and higher manufacturing stage environmental impact vs. higher use stage.
Journal ArticleDOI
Exploring decisive factors in green supply chain practices under uncertainty
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined fuzzy set theory and the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method for a hybrid approach to investigate the effects of each criterion within green supply chain practices (GSCP).
Journal ArticleDOI
Organizational enablers for circular economy in the context of sustainable supply chain management
Matloub Hussain,Mohsin Malik +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the organizational enablers of circular supply chains and their relationships with the environmental performance of supply chains, using a structural equation modeling approach to test the hypothesis derived from a systematic review of the literature.
Journal ArticleDOI
Understanding why firms should invest in sustainable supply chains: a complexity approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that firms focusing on individual sustainable development elements independently are unlikely to find satisfactory solutions to their sustainable supply chain problems, and they use a matrix of interactions as a template, allowing for the identification of key financial, social and environmental elements and their interconnections within and between supply chains.
Journal ArticleDOI
Information sharing in a sustainable supply chain
TL;DR: In this paper, an optimal shipment size and buyer's price are determined mathematically for the case of with-and without-sharing-information in a two-level sustainable supply chain model.
References
More filters
Book
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Related Papers (5)
From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management
Stefan Seuring,Martin Müller +1 more
A framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory
Craig R. Carter,Dale S. Rogers +1 more