Morana Sustainable Supply Chain Management

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-60409-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

It is commonly recognized that logistics has become a majorstrategic issue for all companies, whether they are part of theprimary, secondary or tertiary sector. Faced with the externalpressures of globalization and competition, logistics optimizesprocesses and reduces production and delivery cycles.
The use of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SuSCM) is nowincreasingly at the center of thought, due to the numerous factorsfavoring its implementation: requests from various stakeholders,governmental pressures (decrees, laws, regulations, etc.),environmental pressures (pollution, disappearance of fuel fossils,etc.) and societal pressures (reputation/image, protection, etc.).However, there are still obstacles to the implementation of SuSCM,including significant costs, the complexity of coordination and thelack of communication within the whole supply chain. Nevertheless,it should nowadays be included by any organization in its decisionstowards a strategic approach towards sustainability.
This book presents each economic, environmental and societal aspectof SuSCM. By considering each of these dimensions separately, theprimary objective is to facilitate the implementation of theelements that make it up. Readers are also provided with several"strategic interpretive lenses" to be able to performaudits and diagnostics of each component.
Contents:
1. The Economic Aspect of Sustainable Supply ChainManagement.
2. The Environmental Aspect of Sustainable Supply ChainManagement.
3. The Social/Societal Aspect of Sustainable Supply ChainManagement.
4. Sustainable Supply Chain Management Balanced Scorecard.
About the Authors
Joëlle Morana is Lecturer in management science, attachedto the Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports (TransportEconomy Laboratory) at University Lumière Lyon II in France.Her fields of research concern economic, environmental and societallogistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morana, Joëlle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
I.1. Introduction xi
I.2. Historical background on how supply chain management hasbecome strategic and omnipresent xi
I.3. The emergence of sustainable supply chain managementxiv
Chapter 1. The Economic Aspect of Sustainable Supply ChainManagement 1
1.1. Introduction 1
1.2. Intra- and inter-organizational connections 11
1.3. Information, information systems and ICT: an aid to thesuccess of intra- and inter-organizational connections 44
1.4. Conclusion 48
1.5. Appendix - technical specifications for electronicdata interchange 49
Chapter 2. The Environmental Aspect of Sustainable SupplyChain Management 53
2.1. Introduction 53
2.2. Green design or eco-design 58
2.3. Green operations 64
2.4. Green transport 85
2.5. Systems, regulations, standards and referential frameworks87
2.6. Conclusion 101
2.7. Appendix 101
Chapter 3. The Social/Societal Aspect of Sustainable SupplyChain Management 107
3.1. Introduction 107
3.2. Internal human resources 112
3.3. External human resources 126
3.4. Conclusion 134
3.5. Appendix 135
Chapter 4. Sustainable Supply Chain Management BalancedScorecard 139
4.1. Introduction 139
4.2. Dashboard and logistics: evolution 140
4.3. The dashboards currently used in logistics 142
4.4. The indicators used in Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBalanced Scorecard 148
4.5. Conclusion 164
General conclusion 167
Bibliography 169
Acronyms and Abbreviations 185
Index 191