Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Operation, and Optimization

Dear Colleagues,

Growing concerns over environmental issues and resource scarcity have led industry and academia to adopt circular practices, both within company operations and for supply chain stakeholders. Circular economy presents a feasible solution by ensuring the longevity of products and maximising the utility of resources to reduce the pressure on the natural system. No one company can achieve this goal by their actions alone; instead, a systems thinking approach must be adopted throughout the supply chain, both upstream and downstream. 

This Special Issue seeks to attract both theoretical and empirical research utilising qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis. This Special Issue aims to address the core practices that would enable the manufacturing and service sector to foster a sustainable environment through their actions, both individually and throughout the supply chain. We welcome submissions from various disciplines, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Business models/approaches to adopt circularity in business operations;
• Analysing the role of stakeholders in enabling circular/sustainable practices;
• Lifecycle analysis to underpin the systems thinking approach;
• Material flow analysis to ensure the longevity of the resource life cycle;
• Circular economy as an enabler of sustainability in the manufacturing and service sector;
• The application of a circular economy systems thinking approach to develop a closed-loop supply chain.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Piera Centobelli
Dr. Simon Nadeem
Dr. Walid Khalid Al-Asaad
Dr. Stefano Abbate
Dr. Moayad Mahmoud Al-Talib
Prof. Dr. Daniel Luiz de Mattos Nascimento
Guest Editors

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