Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management

<p>PREFACE x</p>
<p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii</p>
<p>1 Sustainability and Future Trends 1</p>
<p>1.1 Introduction 1</p>
<p>1.2 Sustainability Before Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management 2</p>
<p>1.3 The Impact of Climate Change 7</p>
<p>1.4 Mega –Trends and Sustainability 9</p>
<p>1.4.1 Demographic Evolution 10</p>
<p>1.4.2 Urbanisation 11</p>
<p>1.4.3 Emerging New Consumers 12</p>
<p>1.4.4 Smart Technologies and the Digital Factory 15</p>
<p>1.5 Mega –Trends, Sustainability and Supply Chain Management 17</p>
<p>1.6 Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility 19</p>
<p>1.7 The Development of Sustainable Objectives from the Triple Bottom Line Perspective 22</p>
<p>1.8 Sustainability: The Reasons Why 23</p>
<p>2 Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management as Competitive Factors 28</p>
<p>2.1 Introduction 28</p>
<p>2.2 Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing and Service Industries 31</p>
<p>2.3 Operations, Supply Chain Management and Competitive Advantage 37</p>
<p>2.3.1 Strategic Alignment 37</p>
<p>2.3.2 Operations, Supply Chain Management and Decision Making 39</p>
<p>2.3.3 Operations and Supply Chain Performance Management and Control 40</p>
<p>2.4 Performance and Trade –Off Management 43</p>
<p>2.5 Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management: A Reference Framework 44</p>
<p>3 Sustainability and New Product Design 52</p>
<p>3.1 Introduction 52</p>
<p>3.2 The Environmental Orientation Path 54</p>
<p>3.3 Life Cycle and Cradle –to –Cradle Approaches 58</p>
<p>3.4 Eco –Efficiency and Eco –Effectiveness 61</p>
<p>3.5 The Design for Approaches 64</p>
<p>3.5.1 Design for Environment 66</p>
<p>3.5.2 DFE Principles 70</p>
<p>4 Sustainability and Procurement 81</p>
<p>4.1 Introduction 81</p>
<p>4.2 The Role of Procurement in Delivering Sustainable Solutions 83</p>
<p>4.3 Implementing a Sustainable Procurement Strategy 85</p>
<p>4.3.1 Indentifying Needs and Defining Specifications 87</p>
<p>4.3.2 Vendor Pre –Selection 88</p>
<p>4.3.3 Tender Evaluation and Vendor Selection 90</p>
<p>4.3.4 Vendor Control and Contract Management 92</p>
<p>4.4 Ethics in Procurement 94</p>
<p>5 Sustainability and Production 98</p>
<p>5.1 Introduction 98</p>
<p>5.2 The Design of the Production System 100</p>
<p>5.3 Leveraging Lean Management for a Sustainable Production 102</p>
<p>5.3.1 Overview of Environmental and Social Wastes 105</p>
<p>5.3.2 The Lean Principles and Toolkit 109</p>
<p>5.4 Leveraging Six –Sigma for a Sustainable Production 126</p>
<p>5.4.1 Six Sigma and Statistical Process Control 130</p>
<p>5.5 Servitisation and Leasing 135</p>
<p>6 Sustainability and Logistics, Physical Distribution and Packaging 136</p>
<p>6.1 Introduction 136</p>
<p>6.2 Social and Environmental Aspects in Logistics and Physical Distribution 138</p>
<p>6.3 Physical Distribution and Sustainability: A Reference Framework 140</p>
<p>6.3.1 Carbon Footprint Auditing 145</p>
<p>6.3.2 Eliminating Transportation Waste 149</p>
<p>6.4 Warehouse Management and Sustainability 155</p>
<p>6.5 Sustainable Packaging 159</p>
<p>7 Reverse Logistics Management and Closed–Loop Supply Chain 162</p>
<p>7.1 Introduction 162</p>
<p>7.2 Reverse Flows and Sustainability 164</p>
<p>7.3 Reverse Logistics and Closed –Loop Supply Chain: Not only a Semantic Difference 166</p>
<p>7.4 Closed –Loop Supply Chain Management: Integrating Forward and Backward Flows 168</p>
<p>7.5 Sustainable Supply Chains: Why, Who, What and How? 169</p>
<p>7.5.1 Why? Drivers and Reasons in Sustainable Supply Chains 170</p>
<p>7.5.2 Who? Main Players in Sustainable Supply Chains 171</p>
<p>7.5.3 What? Products, Materials and Packaging in Sustainable Supply Chains 173</p>
<p>7.5.4 How? Recovery Options in Sustainable Supply Chains 175</p>
<p>7.6 Value Creation Through Recovery Options 178</p>
<p>8 Measuring Sustainability 186</p>
<p>8.1 Introduction 186</p>
<p>8.2 Measuring Sustainability in Manufacturing Companies 188</p>
<p>8.3 Sustainable Development Measurement 189</p>
<p>8.3.1 The Measurement of GDP: Limits 189</p>
<p>8.3.2 Human Development Index 191</p>
<p>8.4 Sustainability Measurement in Companies 194</p>
<p>8.4.1 Relevant Profiles 194</p>
<p>8.4.2 Reference Models 197</p>
<p>REFERENCES 204</p>
<p>INDEX 224</p>