Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Dear Colleagues,

While a great deal of work has been done on the production side, the growing purchasing power in Asian Pacific economies is having increasingly serious impacts upon the environment. As a result, there is growing concern about the ability of the region to be sustainable in the long term. In response to this threat, significant moves have been made in Asian countries to restructure their economies towards more suitable patterns of SSCM.

For example, the RoHS and WEEE directives from the EU sent a strong wave of signals to Asian exporters in pursuance of compliance. Additionally, REACH and similar ‘Toxics Use Reduction’ approaches and ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ (EPR) are increasingly challenging industrialists, university researchers and governmental policy makers and consumers to be more holistically proactive. As a result, business-to-business, life cycle assessment, design for environment, green labeling and greening of supply chains efforts are becoming more important for the Asian-Pacific regions’ business environment.

Some countries’ policy makers are exploring ways to develop and implement national strategies and policies to promote green and SSCM of greener products that can help them to foster the evolution of truly greener economies in consumption and production.

The increases in world energy prices coupled with worsening food scarcity in many regions of the world, due, in part to climate change uncertainties, diversion of agriculturally valuable land for production of bio-fuels, continuing human population growth, are prompting many Asian governments to revisit their energy, food and population policies.

This trend is causing an expanded usage of tools in supporting the development and implementation of sustainability strategies designed to foster improved efficiency and effectiveness in the utilization of materials, energy and sustainable regional habitat management. 

This Special Issue focuses particularly on papers from the Asian Pacific region that address:

• Resource flow and management in SCM;
• Education and Training for SSCM;
• Knowledge sharing for SSCM;
• Technology Management for SSCM;
• Mobility and Sustainable Transport in SSCM;
• SSCM metrics and indicators;
• Eco-design, process optimization, improved management;
• Decision analysis and decision support for SSCM applications;
• Industrial synergies and eco-industrial development in Asia.

Prof. Dr. Ming-Lang Tseng
Prof. Dr. Anthony SF Chiu
Prof. Dr. Ru-Jen Lin
Guest Editors

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