Chapter 13

Sustainable Supply Chain Management

image LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Define sustainability and explain its role in supply chain management (SCM).
  2. Identify environmental and social costs inherent in supply chain activities.
  3. Describe methods of measuring and implementing sustainability.
  4. Explain the supply chain sustainability model.
  5. Identify specific changes organizations can make to support a sustainable supply chain.
  6. Make a business case for sustainable SCM using concepts and examples from this chapter.

image Chapter Outline

  • What is Sustainability?

    Defining Sustainability

    Environmental and Social Sustainability

    Environmental Sustainability

    Social Sustainability

    Principles of Sustainability

    Why Sustainability?

    Legal Compliance

    Community Relations

    Revenue

    Ethical Responsibility

  • Evaluating Sustainability

    The Supply Chain Sustainability Model

    Enforcement, Compliance, and Innovation

    Enforcement

    Compliance

    Innovation

    Measures of Sustainability in SCM

    Values in Sustainable SCM

    Cost Assessment

    Cost-of-Control

    Damage Costing

    Costing Systems

    Risk Assessment

    “Fat Tails”

    Scenario-Based Analysis

    Fuzzy Logic

    Monte Carlo Simulations

    Real Option Analysis

  • Sustainability in Practice

    Product Design

    Packaging

    Sourcing

    Process Design

    Marketing Sustainability ...

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