CHAPTER 7

Sustainable Supply Chain Management—The End of the Beginning

Run your business as if it’s in trouble. Because if you don’t, it will be some day.

—Jack Miles

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The evolving sustainable supply chain management paradigm.

Sustainability—Broadened, Integrated, Elevated

The Guardian (UK) noted that many of the world’s biggest car makers—companies such as Vauxhall (UK), BMW, Volkswagen, and Audi—had launched investigations into their paint supply chains.1 The reason—an article published by the Guardian that linked many of their paint supply chains (and their demand for mica) to illegal mines in India where child labor and debt bondage was ...

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