Disruption in global supply chain and socio-economic shocks: a lesson from COVID-19 for sustainable production and consumption

Sustainable meal choices in the out-of-home catering market are essential to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals. This study investigated consumers’ acceptance of different features that help service providers to work more sustainably. For this purpose, data of a choice experiment and a supporting online questionnaire were analyzed using latent class analysis (LCA) and the data of n = 373 employees. Examined attributes in the choice experiment were menu variety, menu type, ordering system, ingredients and price. LCA led to four consumer segments: variety seekers (27.6%), spontaneous decisionmakers—vegetarian (25.7%), spontaneous decisionmakers—meat (24.1%) and vegetarians/vegans (22.6%). Results showed that consumers in all four segments expected to have the choice between different menus in company canteens. Moreover, they preferred spontaneous choice to preordering. Both preferences hamper sustainable production and consumption in the catering sector.

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Distributed Interoperable Records: The Key to Better Supply Chain Management

Computers ◽

10.3390/computers10070089 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 89

Author(s):

Annegret Henninger ◽

Atefeh Mashatan

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

Global Supply Chain ◽

Full Potential ◽

Chain Management ◽

Current State ◽

Future State ◽

Distributed Ledger ◽

Distributed Ledger Technology

The global supply chain is a network of interconnected processes that create, use, and exchange records, but which were not designed to interact with one another. As such, the key to unlocking the full potential of supply chain management (SCM) technologies is achieving interoperability across participating records systems and networks. We review existing research and solutions using distributed ledger technology (DLT) and provide a survey of its current state of practice. We additionally propose a holistic solution: a DLT-based interoperable future state that could enable the interoperable, efficient, reliable, and secure exchange of records with integrity. Finally, we provide a gap analysis between our proposed future state and the current state, which also serves as a gap analysis for many fractional DLT-based SCM solutions and research.

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A stochastic model for developing speculation-postponement strategies and modularization concepts in the global supply chain with demand uncertainty

Computers & Industrial Engineering ◽

10.1016/j.cie.2021.107392 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107392

Author(s):

Syarif Daniel Budiman ◽

Hsin Rau

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Stochastic Model ◽

Demand Uncertainty ◽

Global Supply Chain ◽

Postponement Strategies

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