Integrating environmental management into supply chains

Integrating Business Sustainability into Supply Chain Management

Companies today face the challenge of adopting proper supply chain sustainability (SCS) strategies and practices to respond effectively to emerging global sustainability initiatives. Business sustainability has become a strategic imperative, with a focus on both financial and non-financial sustainability performance, which creates shared value for all stakeholders. This paper examines the integ...

Integrating Environmental Management and Supply Chain Strategies

The decisions related to managing the supply chain and supply chain strategy are already considered important in many organizations. As more executives adopt environmental practices, supply chain strategies will only increase in importance. In this paper, we review how companies develop environmental supply chain strategies. Our interviews with companies from The United States, The United Kingd...

Integrating Transport into Supply Chains: Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Despite the importance of transport within the supply chain, it has traditionally been treated as a separate function within businesses. More recently there has been increased recognition that transport needs to be integrated into the supply chain. This chapter considers vendor managed inventory, and demonstrates how it can be used to improve both transport and supply chain performance. With VM...

Project-Driven Supply Chains: Integrating Inventory Planning with Project Management ∗

We consider the strategic planning of recurrent projects and their material supplies over an extended period of time. We propose a mathematic modeling framework – the project-driven supply chain (PDSC) – to integrate project management (resource planning and scheduling within each project) with material supply management (lead-time planning based on multiproject statistics). For tree structure ...

Environmental Impact of Supply Chains