Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains

✍ Scribed by Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the latest tools, techniques, and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains. Given the ever increasing significance of socio-economic and environmental factors, the management of sustainable supply chains has become a complex and dynamic task. Multiple and conflicting objectives of stakeholders including suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, and retailers add to the complexity of decisions that modern day managers of supply chains face. With the unprecedented technological developments and innovations at hand, sustainability can be maximized for all the activities of a supply chain including: service concept and product design, material sourcing and procurement, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product, and end-of-life management of the product. Consequently, the sustainable supply chains' problems require a systematic and integrated approach. Modeling and simulation, in general, as well as system dynamics and agent-based modeling, in particular, have the capabilities to deal with the complexity of sustainable supply chain related problems. This book will appeal to professionals and researchers in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains: An Introduction (Hassan Qudrat-Ullah)....Pages 3-13
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Determinants of ITF R&D Technology Commercialization in Logistics and Supply Chain Industries: R&D Technologist Perspective (Siu Cheung Ho, Kong Bieng Chuah)....Pages 17-53
A Meta-Analysis of Sustainable Supplier Selection Approaches (Felix Tuczek, Tina Wakolbinger)....Pages 55-79
Green Supply Chain Management, Green Innovations, and Green Practices (Umar Burki)....Pages 81-109
The Road Toward a Circular Economy: The Role of Modular Product Designs in Supply Chains (Thomas Nowak, Fuminori Toyasaki, Tina Wakolbinger)....Pages 111-133
Policy Design for Sustainable Supply Chain Through Training (Ijaz Yusuf, Tashfeen M. Azhar)....Pages 135-177
The Application of System Dynamics for a Sustainable Procurement Operation (Sherif Barrad, Raul Valverde, Stéphane Gagnon)....Pages 179-196
Front Matter ....Pages 197-197
Alternative Energy Policy for Mitigating the Asynchrony of the Wind-Power Industry’s Supply Chain in Brazil (Milton M. Herrera, Isaac Dyner, Federico Cosenz)....Pages 199-221
Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods (Lize Duminy, Stefan N. Grosser)....Pages 223-262
Designing a Sustainable Tourism Supply Chain: A Case Study from Asia (Winai Wongsurawat, Vivek Shrestha)....Pages 263-288
Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management: An Integrated Framework and Practical Perspectives (A. D. Nuwan Gunarathne, Deemantha G. Navaratne, Amanda E. Pakianathan, Yasasi T. Perera N.)....Pages 289-315
Risk Assessment of the Timber Supply Chain in Southern Ontario Using Agent-Based Simulation (Marcin Lewandowski, Ali Asgary)....Pages 317-332
Front Matter ....Pages 333-333
Finale: Sustainable Supply Chain Continuum (Hassan Qudrat-Ullah)....Pages 335-342
Correction to: Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods (Lize Duminy, Stefan N. Grosser)....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter ....Pages 343-353

✦ Subjects

Business and Management; Supply Chain Management; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Sustainability Management