SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AS COMPETITIVE FACTORS

2016 ◽  
pp. 28-51
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Chain Management

scholarly journals Assessing the Enablers and Barriers to Quality and Supply Chain Management Based Approach to Sustainable Operations in the Manufacturing Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Bastas ◽  
Kapila Liyanage
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Change Facilitation ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Leadership Management

Sustainability is becoming the prominent concept of focus for manufacturing research and practice. Various research streams are endeavouring to facilitate its integration and implementation to manufacturing organisations including approaches that use quality management and supply chain management. Sustainability integration is a complex matter for the manufacturing industry, identification of associated enablers and barriers proving fruitful to catalyse the transition of manufacturing organisations into sustainable operations and management practices. This research investigated the enablers and barriers to quality and supply chain management based integration of sustainability in manufacturing organisations through a focussed action research study. The key factors were noted as; integration to existing management systems and processes, familiarity and awareness level of sustainability concepts and terminology, absence of a minimum starter package for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting standards, resource constraints, leverage over supply base, culture and human resource limitations, willingness to learn, commitment, support and engagement of leadership, management system maturity, change facilitation and championing, governmental subsidisation and support, and sustainability awareness of public and market.

scholarly journals The hidden side of sustainable operations and supply chain management: unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1749-1770
Author(s):  
Stelvia V. Matos ◽  
Martin C. Schleper ◽  
Stefan Gold ◽  
Jeremy K. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Crucial Effect

PurposeThe research is based on a critically analyzed literature review focused on the unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions of sustainable operations and supply chain management (OSCM), including the articles selected for this special issue.Design/methodology/approachThe authors introduce the key concepts, issues and theoretical foundations of this special issue on “The hidden side of sustainable operations and supply chain management (OSCM): Unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions”. The authors explore these issues within this context, and how they may hinder the authors' transition to more sustainable practices.FindingsThe authors present an overview of unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs, tensions and influencing factors from the literature, and identify how such problems may emerge. The model addresses these problems by highlighting the crucial effect of the underlying state of knowledge on sustainable OSCM decision-making.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors limited the literature review to journals that ranked 2 and above as defined by the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide. The main implication for research is a call to focus attention on unanticipated outcomes as a starting point rather than only an afterthought. For practitioners, good intentions such as sustainability initiatives need careful consideration for potential unanticipated outcomes.Originality/valueThe study provides the first critical review of unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions in the sustainable OSCM discourse. While the literature review (including papers in this special issue) significantly contributes toward describing these issues, it is still unclear how such problems emerge. The model developed in this paper addresses this gap by highlighting the crucial effect of the underlying state of knowledge concerned with sustainable OSCM decision-making.

scholarly journals Alternative Approach for Improvement Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Large European Container Ports

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Ville Hinkka ◽  
Reetta Mäkinen ◽  
Jenni Eckhardt ◽  
Toni Lastusilta
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain Management ◽  
Container Ports ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact

The main objectives of the EU transport policy belongs the limitation of the negative environmental impact from ports. Similarly, companies are adopting sustainable supply chain management practices to response the policy makers’ and consumers’ demands for sustainable operations. This paper aims to discover how the largest European container ports communicate about their efforts to improve the sustainability of their operations to find out how the ports themselves see their position as a part of transition towards more sustainable supply chain operations. Based on the study, different large European container ports consider environmental issues variously. The risk is that some ports may get competitive advantages by slipping in the environmental questions. Alternatively, if the port does not take sustainability questions seriously and it gets a bad reputation, the risk is that the customers and consumers do not accept the behavior of the port and shipping companies start to avoid that port. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2021-02-02-06 Full Text: PDF

Medikamentenlogistik: Kooperation: Swisslog Healthcare und SPZ

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Chain Management

Swisslog, ein führender Anbieter von Lösungen für Medikamenten- und Supply-Chain-Management im Gesundheitswesen, hat vom angesehenen Schweizer Paraplegiker-Zentrum in Nottwil (SPZ) den Großauftrag für die Lieferung und Installation seiner modernsten Technologie zur stationären und ambulanten Medikamentenversorgung erhalten.

Theory of the firm, Supply Chain management, and relationship marketing

2014 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
M. Storchevoy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Chain Management

The paper studies through the lens of the economic theory of the firm the development of two managerial disciplines: supply chain management and relationship marketing. The author demonstrates which ideas have been borrowed by these disciplines from the economic theory of the firm, and in what extent their implications may be useful for the latter.

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