Sustainable Supply Chains: A Research-Based Textbook on Operations and Strategy

ISBN-13: 9783319297897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 517 str.

Yann Bouchery; Charles Corbett; Jan C. Fransoo

Opis

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.
As firms become progressively more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large vertically integrated monoliths, risks and opportunities associated with activities upstream or downstream will increasingly impinge upon their own wellbeing. For a firm to thrive, it is increasingly imperative that it be aware of economic, environmental and social dimensions of the entire supply chain it belongs to, and that it proactively monitor and manage those. 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.
We have noticed a recent surge in the number of courses on sustainable supply chain management or related topics, but a relative lack of corresponding teaching materials. While sustainability has been widely studied at the level of company strategy and extensive related pedagogical materials exist, there is still a relative lack of materials on sustainability with a supply chain management perspective. "

Spis treści

Perspectives on Sustainability and Sustainable Supply Chains.- Measuring Environmental Impacts in Supply Chains.- Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment.- Carbon Footprinting in Supply Chains.- Water Footprint Assessment in Supply Chains.- Sustainable Non-Renewable Materials Management.- Disclosing and Reporting Environmental Sustainability of Supply Chains.- Operational Aspects of Sustainable Supply Chains.- Green Logistics.- Green Inventory Management.- Green Facility Location.- Operational Implications of Environmental Regulation.- Responsible Purchasing: Moving from Compliance to Value Creation in Supplier Relationships.- Green Technology Choice.- Principles of EcoDesign in Sustainable Supply Chains.- Business Models and Strategy in Sustainable Supply Chains.- Market Value Implications of Voluntary Corporate Environmental Initiatives.- Business Implications of Sustainability Practices in Supply Chains.- Moving from a Product-Based Economy to a Service-Based Economy for a More Sustainable Future.- Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Strategic Overview.- Sustainable Food Supply Chain Design.- Risk and Uncertainty Management for Sustainable Supply Chains.- The Social Dimension of Sustainable Supply Chains.- Improving Social and Environmental Performance in Global Supply Chains.- Social Responsibility in Supply Chains.- Cross-Sector Partnerships for Sustainable Supply Chains.

O autorze

Dr. Yann Bouchery is an Assistant Professor at EM Normandie (France). Dr. Bouchery received a Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Lund University (Sweden) as well as a Master Degree in Industrial Management and Logistics from Ecole Centrale Lille (France). He obtained a PhD in Operations Management from Ecole Centrale Paris (France) in 2012. He has published articles in academic journals such as International Journal of Production Economics and European Journal of Operational Research.

Charles J. Corbett, Ph.D., is professor of Operations Management and Sustainability at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he holds the IBM Chair in Management. He served as Chairman and Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs from 2009-2012, and previously as Associate Dean of the MBA program.

Dr. Tarkan Tan is an Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Dr. Tan received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002.

Blurb

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.

As firms become progressively more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large vertically integrated monoliths, risks and opportunities associated with activities upstream or downstream will increasingly impinge upon their own wellbeing. For a firm to thrive, it is increasingly imperative that it be aware of economic, environmental and social dimensions of the entire supply chain it belongs to, and that it proactively monitor and manage those. 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. 

We have noticed a recent surge in the number of courses on “sustainable supply chain management” or related topics, but a relative lack of corresponding teaching materials. While sustainability has been widely studied at the level of company strategy and extensive related pedagogical materials exist, there is still a relative lack of materials on sustainability with a supply chain management perspective. 

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.