Sustainable Supply Chain

Cooperated with partners and leaders in the field of supply chains and transport, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Logistics and Transportation started to conduct research on the supply chain. The report “Beyond Supply Chains Empowering Responsible Value Chains” analyses the impact that supply chain practices has brought to business, society and environment, and explores the issue how shared value can be made through better supply chain decisions. The report identifies “a set of 31 proven supply chain practices which provide companies with a blueprint of where they can gain both commercial and socio-environmental advantage (both environment and local economic development)—driving a triple advantage” (). In addition, the report “provides a framework for evaluating the potential value at stake behind each of these practices, and an implementation framework for

Richard Dana Associates (RDA) was brought in by the owners of a family-owned business with complex relationship issues at a time preceding an anticipated leadership transition. Following individual and group coaching sessions, RDA was able to help the leadership separate personal issues, and codify practices through formal policies to allow the leadership group to focus on business issues without personal complications. At the end of RDA's engagement, the client was well-positioned to begin developing a transition plan.

The solution to the faulty global supply chain, presented by Timothy Smith’s Climate Change: Corporate Sustainability in the Supply Chain, lies within including environmental sustainability into; transnational policy regimes, technological development, and consumptive behavior of society.

and ensuring stable supply chains with seeking opportunity for enhanced performance and using the sustainability agenda for strategic advantage. Developing and integrating a detailed sustainability vision into your long-term strategic plan in a way that creates lasting value whilst also building public trust is a common challenge for all types of organizations.

One interview question asks a potential candidate to explain the role that supply management plays in achieving sustainability goals in an organization. Sustainability is defined as avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an

This report will compare and contrast the role of Sustainable Consumption as it pertains to the retailers The Coffee Club and The Three Monkeys Coffee & Tea House. The information provided will discuss the retailer 's responsibility to influence consumer purchasing habits through encouraging and facilitating sustainable consumption within certain product lines (Danish Ministry of the Environment, 2015). The efficiency of resource procurement and utilisation will also be a focus of this paper through discussion of optimal processes, products and services each retailer could implement in order to control and minimise environmental footprints (Miller, 2008). Finally the paper will examine supply chain resource efficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility as it relates to Consumer Choice, Store Design and Operation (Miller, 2008).

(1) The supply chain managers should address the sustainability issues and should look at the entire supply

Abstract Consideration is given to the convergence of supply chains and sustainability. In doing so, the focus on environmental management and operations is moved from local optimization

The discussion of supply chains going green has become a bone of contention among major stakeholders in the industry. The discussion started after the Carbon disclosure project released a report indicating that supply chains contributed greatly to the emission of carbon in the atmosphere. Due to the report, pressure has been mounting on the administration of supply chains to implement strategies on their carbon management. Analysts have however stated that there are various pros and cons of the supply chains going green, which have to be considered in the implementation of carbon management strategies. This paper analyzes the pros and cons of supply chains going green.

In recent years sustainable supply chain management is one of the most interesting issues among supply chain experts. The sustainable supply chain focuses on social, environmental and economic performance measures as main pillars of sustainability. Environmental aspects of the sustainable supply chain include input- oriented factors such as renewable energy sources, natural resources, water and energy consumption or water quality, while output- oriented factors concentrate on waste and pollution[1]. In New Zealand, natural environment provides various benefits such as high quality of life, tourism attraction and basis for the country’s large exports of agriculture. Water pollution and climate change are the main concerns of the country as

Environmental sustainability has been receiving immense academic and industry attention in recent years. Increasing carbon emissions and the associated global warming have been raising numerous questions on the efforts required to make businesses more sustainable environmentally. In a globalized world, where manufacturing is increasingly getting concentrated, transportation of products over long distances is a reality. Increasing consumption, richer lifestyles and supply chain issues such as higher levels of logistics and transportation coordination have led to higher carbon emissions thereby raising important questions on environmental sustainability. On a parallel basis, customers are becoming more environmentally conscious and are

Selecting suppliers by lowest price or nearest location which has been used since ancient times is not sufficient in today’s competitive environment. Nowadays selecting supplier has been an important decision that affects the organisation objectives. So researches have been conducted and case studies have been explored and investigated to reach the optimal approach to select a supplier that satisfies both customers and stakeholders and to achieve the organisation goals. Therefore, a multi-criteria decisionmaking process should be adapted to execute supplier selection operation properly. Resources selection needs to go through many steps to assist decision-makers to do their job elaborately. Sustainability of the supplier has

According to the Operations and Supply Chain Management text book, sustainability is defined as “the ability to meet current resource needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs” (Jacobs & Chase, 2018). This means that a company’s ability to protect the environment for future generations while, at the same time, maintaining quality of product or services.

In our society, lots industries are experiencing drastic competition so that survival in the future by reducing cost or use lower quality resources. As we know, sustainability operation focuses on how to utilize the resource optimally to produce higher value goods in order to satisfy diversity stakeholders (Brindleyand Oxborrow, 2014). In other words, business organizations should figure out the approach to use the resources, which are preventing our environment and generating less pollution, even if they would be reusable. In supply chain industry, company has to involve several sustainability thinks when they are purchasing raw material, applying diversity technology to produce goods and making delivery plan. For example, supply chain

In partial fulfilment of the course requirements in Management Accounting By: Ma. Isabel Lagunilla Hocson sab.lagu@gmail.com