Sustainable supply chain planning for biomass-based power generation with environmental risk and supply uncertainty considerations: a real-life case study

Sustainability has assumed increased importance in view of the international focus on pollution control and climate change. Specifically, the development of sustainable supply chain can help in important ways to reduce pollution and address environmental concerns. Energy efficiency forms an important aspect of this movement towards sustainable supply chain. Energy efficiency can be achieved through judicious energy management initiatives at the supply chain level. A metrics-based approach provides an effective mechanism to implement energy management programs in supply chain operation. The chapter explores the utility of energy balance sheet as a metric to implement such energy management programs. It further looks at the challenges and opportunities faced by supply chain partners in implementing energy management programs. It uses the case study of Firozabad glass industry to illustrate the implementation of energy management for developing sustainable supply chain.

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Relief Supply Chain Planning

Relief Supply Chain Management for Disasters ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-824-8.ch003 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 31-44

Author(s):

Ruth Banomyong ◽

Apichat Sodapang

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Planning Process ◽

Real Life ◽

Simulation Models ◽

Illustrative Case ◽

Chain Model ◽

Supply Chain Planning ◽

Real Life Situation ◽

Illustrative Case Study ◽

Relief Supply Chain

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a framework for the development of relief supply chain systems. An illustrative case study is presented in order to help relief supply chain decision makers in their relief supply chain planning process. Developing simulation models to test proposed relief supply chain response plans is much less risky than actually waiting for another disaster to happen and test the proposed relief supply chain model in a real life situation. The simulated outcome can then be used to refine the developed relief supply chain response model.

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Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12051814 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 1814 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Iain J. Fraser ◽

Martin Müller ◽

Julia Schwarzkopf

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Automotive Industry ◽

Raw Material ◽

Sustainable Supply Chain ◽

Chain Management ◽

Before And After ◽

Sustainability Problems

Sustainability in supply chain management (SSCM) has become established in both academia and increasingly in practice. As stakeholders continue to require focal companies (FCs) to take more responsibility for their entire supply chains (SCs), this has led to the development of multi-tier SSCM (MT-SSCM). Much extant research has focused on simple supply chains from certain industries. Recently, a comprehensive traceability for sustainability (TfS) framework has been proposed, which outlines how companies could achieve MT-SSCM through traceability. Our research builds on this and responds to calls for cases from the automotive industry by abductively analysing a multi-tier supply chain (MT-SC) transparency case study. This research analyses a raw material SC that is particularly renowned for sustainability problems—the cobalt supply chain for electric vehicles—and finds that the extant literature has oversimplified the operationalisation of transparency in MT-SSCM. We compare the supply chain maps of the MT-SC before and after an auditing and mapping project to demonstrate the transparency achieved. Our findings identify challenges to the operationalisation of SC transparency and we outline how FCs might set to increase MT-SC transparency for sustainability.

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Bromine Recycling in the Chemical Industry – An Example of Circular Economy

CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry ◽

10.2533/chimia.2019.737 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 73 (9) ◽

pp. 737-742

Author(s):

Francis Pilloud ◽

Nasibeh Pouransari ◽

Luc Renard ◽

Rebecca Steidle

Keyword(s):

Chemical Synthesis ◽

Environmental Risk ◽

Chemical Industry ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Closed Loop ◽

Industrial Ecology ◽

Real Life ◽

Significant Safety ◽

Recovery Yield

This paper discusses the application of the circular economy concept and industrial ecology approach in the context of industrial chemical sites. A real-life case study about the use of bromine as reactant for chemical synthesis and its recycling by Syngenta in Monthey is described in detail. With a recovery yield of 97% it represents a well-established example of closed loop recycling, one aspect of the circular economy. The process leads to significant safety and environmental risk reduction and economic savings in the order of several million CHF per year.

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