The increasing expansion of the needs human beings and societies has caused various aspects life to face serious challenges be considered. Supply chain organizations operate in a market today's global environment that is increasingly complex dynamic nature. Stable supply chains are inevitable meet drastic changes customer needs. Research shown manufacturing companies need accelerate shift from ...

The present work proposes a computer-aided methodology for designing sustainable supply chains in terms of sustainability metrics by utilizing the P-graph framework. The methodology is an outcome of the collaboration between the Office of Research and Development (ORD) of the U.S. EPA and the research group led by the creators of the P-graph framework at the University of Pannonia. The integrat...

Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become an increasingly important issue for industry, government and academic researchers. Supply chain managers are being required to respond to the challenges of new legislation, standards and regulations; changing customer demands; drivers for efficiency, cost effectiveness and return on investment; while simultaneously...

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In recent years the topic of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (sSCM) has received growing attention and has become an increasingly popular research area. Today, companies must tackle multiple new challenges: they have to address the problem of rapid climate changes, face the negative impact of the financial crisis and the prices, deal with the growing public interest in ecology (e.g. Green L...

These days, companies in the automotive and electronics sector are forced by legal regulations and customer needs to collect a myriad of different indicators regarding sustainability of their products. However, in today’s supply chains, these products are often the result of the collaboration of a large number of companies. Thus, these companies have to apply complex, cross-organizational, and ...

With the emergence of environmental protection as a global issue, implementing environmental practices for sustaining green supply chain management (GSCM) has received a lot of attention. This study investigates the impact of integration with suppliers and supply disruption risk on environmental practices. It also examines the role of supplier integration and supply disruption risk on performan...

Green Supply Chain Management has its roots in supply chain management, i.e. it is based on the adoption and extension of its concepts. The “Green” component to Supply Chain Management involves addressing the influence and relationships between Supply chain management and the natural environment [1]. Harland [2] defines supply chain management as “the management of a network of interconnected b...

This paper presents a framework for tour operators to use in the implementation of supply chain management processes to improve sustainability performance. This is critical for a sector that historically has treated impacts as externalities and suppliers as commodities, and in which recent sustainability actions have been informal or ecosavings led. This framework is part of the outcome from th...