A Car in Three Days! Environmental Impacts of the Automotive Supply Chain

Joe Miemczyk

Chapter 10 in Towards an Environment Research Agenda, 2004, pp 235-255 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Summary This chapter discusses the trend in the automotive industry to reduce lead-times and build to customer orders, and how this may impact on the environmental aspects of the automotive supply chain. It argues that more responsive operations and supply chain processes can have a negative impact on the environment, owing to current operations strategies. The main areas of concern are vehicle delivery, car body painting, component delivery and high-risk supplier processes. The chapter goes on to describe how mitigating factors can reduce these impacts and can have a positive impact on operations’ costs. This trend of responsiveness is common across many industries and unless mitigating factors are introduced collaboratively and early on across the value chain, the impacts on society may be considerable.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Customer Order; Vehicle Manufacturer; Assembly Plant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554429_10

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