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Renewable energy and agriculture
Published in Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire, Agribusiness Economics, 2022
There are also plans to subsidise the production of renewable energy through the introduction of feed-in tariffs set by the state from 2012 to 2017, and to introduce energy subsidisation through competitive tendering from 2017 onwards. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture's renewable energy financing programme has a budget of $61 million and is a priority: Sustainable material flow management for an optimal supply of renewable resources to energy production and conversion systems.The development of sustainable production and use of renewable raw materials.Decentralised development of resources in aquatic systems.Information and dialogue with civil society on the bio-economy and sustainability.
Sustainable Building Design and Systems Integration
Published in Steffen Lehmann, Robert Crocker, Designing for Zero Waste, 2013
‘Zero-waste’ concepts in design and construction consider the entire life cycle of buildings and express the need for closed-loop industrial and societal systems and construction processes. Better material flow management leads to better material efficiency in the use of raw materials and construction systems and fewer waste streams; it helps in preventing a waste of resources, minimizing material input and reducing the use of non-recyclable materials.
Optimizing the quality level of raw materials based on material flow cost accounting in a production system with rework
Published in The Engineering Economist, 2022
Mehdi Seifbarghy, Mohsen Hamidi, Wichai Chattinnawat
Yagi and Kokubu (2018) focused on material flow analysis as well as the financial and environmental impacts of generated waste for a number of firms in Thailand. Their study revealed that firms committed to material flow management systems are more likely to control the consumed materials and generated waste, especially hazardous waste. Another important outcome of their work is that these firms are more likely to worry about hazardous waste than the operational efficiency. Rieckhof and Guenther (2018) studied the integration of two important concepts of life cycle assessment and MFCA noting that the first one is associated with environmental issues while the second one is pertinent to financial issues. They presented a case study to illustrate how manufacturing costs and environmental overhead are generated by the production system, noting that a substantial portion of the resources flows into by-products and waste. Pauliuk (2018) proposed a framework for extracting circular economy indicators. They suggested a set of novel quantitative indicators for circular economy strategy assessment. The indicators are mostly taken from material flow analysis (MFA), MFCA, and life cycle assessment (LCA).
An inventory model of three-layer supply chain of wood and furniture industry in the Caribbean region of Colombia
Published in International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, 2018
Katherinne Salas Navarro, Jaime Acevedo Chedid, Nohora Mercado Caruso, Shib Sankar Sana
In collaborative supply chain, all channel members work together so as to plan and execute different activities within the chain to achieve a greater success than working individually. The collaborative strategy is implemented to achieve the best success of the channel members by linking all the commercial activities of the companies to the standard procedures in order to reach a shared vision of the market's opportunities (Bowersox, 1991). These strategies are based on a collaborative advantage paradigm (Kanter, 1994) in which companies develop techniques to reduce the differences among the organisations and the people who shape them, attaining a real association. Through collaboration, the associates of a supply chain can work as they belong to the same company, accessing and taking advantage of everyone's resources and enjoying from the related benefits. A fundamental goal in a supply chain is to control the inventory through material flow management since both the manufacturer and the supplier invest a great part of their total income in material acquisition satisfying customers’ demand by producing goods or providing services. A company can increase market participation through the collaboration of members of the supply chain, from the supply of raw material up to distribution of the finished product to the end consumers. Collaboration in the supply chain ensures a better performance in aspects of costs, discounts, timely provision policies, flexibility, order quantities and commitment, among others. Goyal and Gunasekharan (2007) analyse a multi-stage production system in order to determine the economic order quantity (EOQ) and the economic production quantity (EPQ) for raw material taking into account the effect of different market policies. Zhou, Min, and Goyal (2008) study the coordination problems in a decentralised supply chain where demand depends on the distributors. In supply chain management, the noteworthy works are done by Sana (2011a); Panda (2013); Cárdenas-Barrón and Sana (2014, 2015); Roy, Sana, and Chaudhuri (2015); Pal, Sana, and Chaudhuri (2015); Taleizadeh and Noori-Daryan (2015a, in press); Taleizadeh, Noori-Daryan, and Govindan (2016); Taleizadeh, Noori-Daryan, and Tavakkoli-Moghadam (2015a); Taleizadeh, Nouri-Dariyan, and Cárdenas-Barrón (2015b); Taleizadeh, Pentico, Aryanezhad, and Jabalameli (2013a); Taleizadeh, Niaki, Aryanezhad, and Shafii (2013b); Modak, Panda, and Sana (2016a, 2016b); Yin, Nishi, and Zhang (2016); Aljazzar, Jaber, and Goyal (2016); Panda, Saha, and Nandi (2012); Panda, Modak, Basu, and Goyal (2015); Panda, Modak, Sana, and Basu (2016), among others.
Impact of coercive and non-coercive environmental supply chain sustainability drivers on supply chain performance: mediation role of monitoring and collaboration
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2021
Mahdi Nasrollahi, Mohammad Reza Fathi, Hamid Reza Sanouni, Seyed Mohammad Sobhani, Amirhossein Behrooz
Sustainability management is defined as all strategic business activities to minimise environmental, economic, and social sustainable risks and maximise corporate value such as shareholders value (Wang et al. 2008). Researchers remind that competitive priorities in sustainable supply chain management refer to the targets of manufacturing units that enable firms to compete, achieve proven capabilities of whole activities, and enhance the competitive advantage of the company. Sustainable development in supply chain management is not only a limiting factor but also an approach to improve performance (Liu et al. 2013). Sustainable supply chain considers material flow management, information, capital as well as collaboration among companies along the supply chain with goal integration of all sustainable development aspects (including economic, environmental and social dimensions), based on the needs of customers and shareholders. In sustainable supply chains, it is the members who utilise social and environmental criteria to remain in the supply chain; while, it is expected to be preserved competitiveness through customer requirements responsiveness and relevant economic criteria (Seuring and Müller 2008). Nowadays, the automotive industry, which has direct and indirect interaction in all its process with the environment has an important role in Gross national product. Also, in line with local market saturation, domestic automakers need to focus on regional and global markets. It is also necessary to pay attention to join the World Trade Organisation, development of international environmental regulations and focus on environmentally friendly green products utilisation, green management to offer products and services in the automotive industry. Also, identification and implementation of green management in the automotive industry will save on the environment through negative effects control of industrial development. Therefore, automotive executives should consider environmental dimensions and social costs in their decisions. But investigations carried out in this area indicate a few research activities in this regard in Iran. On the other hand, with an increase in the volume of global automotive exchanges and producing a large number of products, it introduces the automotive industry as a mother. Therefore, the study of any factors which can affect the sustainability of the supply chain in this large industry is also a research imperative. This research is attempting to answer the question ‘what is the impact of coercive and non-coercive environmental supply chain sustainability on supply chain performance with the role of monitoring and collaboration in the auto manufacturing.’