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

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 should also be of interest to 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 ever more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large and vertically integrated monoliths, the risks and opportunities associated with activities upstream or downstream will increasingly affect their own wellbeing. For firms to thrive, it is increasingly imperative that they be aware of the economic, environmental and social dimensions of the supply chains they operate in, and that they proactively monitor and manage them. Finding effective solutions towards a more sustainable supply chain is increasingly important for managers, but raises difficult questions, often without clear answers. This book provides students and practitioners valuable insights into these kinds of questions, based on the latest academic research.
Chapter "Food Loss, Food Waste, and Sustainability in Food Supply Chains" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Sustainable Supply Chains: Introduction.- Part 1: Measuring Environmental Impacts in Supply Chains.- Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment.- Carbon Footprinting in Supply Chains: Measurement, Reporting and Disclosure.- Water Footprint Assessment in Supply Chains.- Part 2: Operational Aspects of Sustainable Supply Chains.- Green Logistics.- Green Inventory Management.- Green Network Design and Facility Location.- Operational Implications of Environmental Regulation.- Food Loss, Food Waste, and Sustainability in Food Supply Chains.- Demand Management for Sustainable Supply Chain Operations.- Part 3: Business Models and Strategy in Sustainable Supply Chains.- Supply Chain Collaboration for Sustainability.- Green Technology Choice for Deep Decarbonization.- 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.- Toward a circular economy: A guiding framework for circular supply chain implementation.- Reusable Packaging for B2C Supply Chains.- Sustainable Non-Renewable Materials Management.- Supply Chain Risk and Resilience Management as Enablers for Sustainability.- Part 4: 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.