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ABSTRACT
Sustainable Supply Chain have become a cornerstone to any company that seeks to achieve sustainable goals. A company’s image is no longer related to the old paradigm of being sustainable in its own activities, but instead is associated with a strong collaboration between all supply chain stakeholders, towards a sustainable activity. It is then critical to create new methods and tools to account for the three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental and social, in a multistakeholder chain. In this context, operational research (OR) methods play a key role in supporting sustainable supply chain activities. This paper aims to review the trends and directions of OR methods applications towards the achievement of sustainable supply chain. A set of 220 papers has been reviewed to identify the OR methods being employed, the levels of decision considered and how sustainability practices were treated through OR. We found that optimization models applied tostrategic level decisions are the most preponderant studies. Moreover, it was verified that sustainability has been mainly tackled by assessing economic and environmental aspects, leaving behind the social aspects. Additionally, OR-based studies do not yet present a clear definition of sustainability, a fact that is proven by the number of environmental and social methodologiesexplored. Based on the major trends identified in the literature, a research framework is derived, pointing towards a future research agenda in the area.
INTRODUCTION
Supply Chain (SC) have appeared for the first time in the literature more than thirty years ago when Oliver and Weber (Oliver & Webber, 1982) proposed the first definition for the management of such systems. Since then, the SC management (SCM) area has grown considerably at both research and industrial levels, and SC are nowadays bedrock systems in any organization. SC, in its classical form – forward supply chain, are viewed as a combination of processes aimed at fulfilling customers’ requests, that include all possible network entitiessuch as suppliers, manufacturers, transporters, warehouses, retailers and customers, whose main purpose is the customer´s satisfaction at a minimum cost (Simchi-Levi et al., 2007).
Year: ۲۰۱۸
Publisher : ELSEVIER
By : Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa , catia da Silva , Ana Carvalho
File Information: English Language/ 60 Page / size: 2.44 MB
سال : ۱۳۹۶
ناشر : ELSEVIER
کاری از : Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa، C «آتیا سیلوا، Ana Carvalho…
اطلاعات فایل : زبان انگلیسی / 60 صفحه / حجم : MB 2.44
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