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Synthesis of Regional Renewable Supply Networks
Published in Subhas K. Sikdar, Frank Princiotta, Advances in Carbon Management Technologies, 2021
Žan Zore, Lidija Čuček, Zdravko Kravanja*
Sustainable supply chain networks need to balance economic, environmental and social performance. However, views on what constitutes “sustainable”, differ at various levels, at the levels of individuals, companies, local communities, governments and globally, owing to differences in values, interests, contexts (Mascarenhas et al., 2014) and diversities. Sustainability is, thus, defined and assessed differently at the micro (smaller-scale) and macro (larger-scale) levels (Zore et al., 2016). It is important that a priority for supply network designs should be to create them to be truly sustainable and not just less unsustainable (Pagell and Shevchenko, 2014). A truly sustainable supply chain network exhibits at least non-negative economic performance, while doing at least no harm to environment and society (Pagell and Shevchenko, 2014). Synthesis of more sustainable and especially truly sustainable systems is, thus, a complex multi-objective problem (Azapagic et al., 2016). It is also important, that sustainability of systems be evaluated from a longer term perspective, across an entire system’s lifetime (Zore et al., 2018b).
Designing Closed-Loop Supply Chain Networks with Commercial Returns
Published in Subramanian Pazhani, Design and Analysis of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Networks, 2021
Supply chain network design is a key strategic decision in supply chain management as it has a significant impact on supply chain efficiency and profitability. Supply chain engineers and managers work with the existing network to manage inventory and logistics to meet consumers’ demand. Supply chain cost, lead time, and risk are some of the common performance measures for supply chain operations. It is mandatory for companies to incorporate aspects affecting the performance of the supply chain operations during the network design stage. A poorly designed or sub-optimal supply chain design will lead to increase in cost and decrease in efficiency of the supply chain operations. Companies are striving to manufacture and distribute the products in an efficient manner to stay highly competitive in today's market. As discussed in Chapter 1, most supply chain networks are receiving huge volumes of returns. The returns trend keeps increasing with increasing online consumer sales, high product variety, and changing consumer preferences. To gain economic advantage by processing these returns and selling refurbished products, companies have to design their supply chains to accommodate both forward and return flows.
The Improviser: Creative–Diverse–Flexible Tinkering to Achieve Resilience
Published in Çağrı Haksöz, Risk Intelligent Supply Chains, 2018
Redundancy of any components, parts, or players in a supply chain network increases the resilience. Redundancy is classified in two types: pure redundancy and degeneracy.84 A pure redundant system contains multiple copies of the same part. If you have two smoke alarms in your manufacturing facility, when one fails the other is still functional. On the other hand, degeneracy means that multiple parts perform the same function or task but have different structures. In addition to a smoke alarm, an alarm based on heat becomes a degenerate option. Preserving redundancy is critical for supply chain network resilience. Yet there is a trade-off between diversity and redundancy unless the system capacity is unlimited. As you increase the diversity in a supply chain network, you essentially reduce the redundancy, and vice versa. You need the diversity for an effective response to a diverse set of disturbances of the environment. Yet you also need a certain degree of redundancy to prevent fragility of the supply chain network. Simon Levin emphasizes the criticality of redundancy in an ecosystem: Redundancy is the immediate source of replacement of lost functions. … The essential element to understanding the importance of redundancy is to elucidate the functional substitutability of one species for another, the ecological complement to economic substitutability.85
Cyber supply chain risk management and performance in industry 4.0 era: information system security practices in Malaysia
Published in Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, 2023
Yudi Fernando, Ming-Lang Tseng, Ika Sari Wahyuni-Td, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Cyril Foropon
The challenge to fulfil market demands, improve efficiency and boost coordination and integration and SCP has made manufacturing firms move toward adopting the IR4.0 technology. The supply chain network systems are automated and managed using sensors. Although the production process in multi-site production is monitored and supervised anywhere, the flexibility of the supply chain remains a challenging task [1,11]. Market and production data are shared in real-time among global supply chain networks with digital support, automation, and monitoring systems. In this context, cybersecurity has gained concern concerning shared information and credential data. However, no empirical work exists on how a manufacturing firm mitigates cybersecurity risks and improves its security practices and the SCP.
Sustainable supply chain management in stakeholders: supporting from sustainable supply and process management in the healthcare industry in Vietnam
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2022
Ming-Lang Tseng, Hien Minh Ha, Ming K. Lim, Kuo-Jui Wu, Mohammad Iranmanesh
The healthcare industry in Vietnam is important in the public treatment of diseases and ensures a healthy life for people in socio-economic development. The intensification of healthcare industrial competition and customer awareness has forced the industry to perform their environmental sustainability. Firms are relied on the supply chain network to comply with sustainable requirements, as well as achieving the economic benefits, environment and social impacts to meet the demands from customer, governments and society (Silvestre et al. 2018). Tseng, Islam, et al. (2019), Tseng et al. (2019a, 2019b) emphasised that sustainable development requires the close cooperation among supply chain participants and it encourages the adoption of SSCM throughout the firm's supply chain. Shou et al. (2019) argued that SSCM enables firms align stakeholders into sustainable activities and then fulfil their stakeholders’ expectation of environmental and social responsibilities; hence, firms must concern about SSCM in order to successfully achieve sustainability. Moreover, the fact that firms have to take a total SSCM implies that the interaction between forward and reverse flows has to be considered, and this requires the involvement of investment recovery (de Oliveira et al. 2019; Lin, Jeng, and Tseng 2019; Engeland et al. 2020). Therefore, an understanding of SSCM related to stakeholders along with investment recovery as SSCM practice is needed to guarantee SSCM in general and especially in the healthcare industry.
Optimizing a robust bi-objective supply chain network considering environmental aspects: a case study in plastic injection industry
Published in International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, 2020
Fatemeh Isaloo, Mohammad Mahdi Paydar
The concept of supply chain network design has become wider by adding sustainability in supply chain management. Sustainability was first introduced in the seventies and early eighties. But the concept was generally defined in the report of the World Commission on Environmental Development in 1987. According to this concept, sustainability means using resources to meet needs, in a way that does not endanger the needs of future generations. In the context of this general definition, there are various concepts such as explaining the impact of economic activities on the environment, ensuring food security, ensuring the provision of essential human needs, and protecting non-renewable resources (Shrivastava, 1995). Several reviews have shown that although environmental concepts have been raised in numerous articles, the concept of sustainability as an integrated vision was proposed for the first time in 2010 in this area (Gruner & Power, 2017).