Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Navid Sabbaghi and Omid Sabbaghi

Chapter Chapter 5 in Practical Sustainability, 2011, pp 101-119 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Regulators, customers, courts, shareholders, directors, partners, and (indirectly) competitors place demands on products or firms to reduce their ecological footprint. These demands are known now, but in the future they may be uncertain. In order for firms to survive and compete, they must supply operational innovations both within their firm and further upstream (e.g., their suppliers and their suppliers’ suppliers) in order to meet future sustainability demands. These demands and the supply chain’s response in terms of innovations create sustainability risks that endanger the firm’s survival. The need for firms to manage sustainability risk has driven the evolution of supply chains from operating in forward-only modes to operating in symbiotic modes. This chapter presents an overview of sustainable supply chain management and its focus on managing product and process waste, by-products, and energy consumption in order to manage sustainability risks. Building upon this background of sustainable supply chains, the chapter describes sustainability risks that firms in a supply chain face and surveys methods for inducing sustainable practices among supply chain partners, particularly upstream partners.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Ecological Footprint; Environmental Management System; Green Supply Chain Management; United Nations Global Compact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230116368_5

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