Sustainable Supply Chain and Inventory Management

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing environmental concerns and the negative impact of industries on societies call not only for the better use of decision-making tools and techniques for managing supply chains but also the further development of optimisation techniques. Various sustainability-related concerns (e.g., climate change, water stress, biodiversity decline) have pushed international organisations and governments to introduce new regulations that change the business environment and present new challenges to supply chain decision makers. Such concerns have also made an impact on customer expectations in the marketplace. As a result, sustainability is becoming a major component of customer requirements. This transition adds to the new challenges that supply chain managers ought to overcome. Recent technological advances provide supply chains with a set of powerful tools to seek opportunities for financial, environmental, and societal improvement, covering all pillars of sustainability. 

This Special Issue aims at proposing and demonstrating new insights into sustainable supply chain and inventory management. To this end, we invite manuscripts that conduct research on sustainability issues in supply chain and inventory management applications, as well as operations research/operations management or life cycle assessment approaches. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sustainability in supply chain configuration;
• Data-driven decision making and sustainability in supply chain and inventory management;
• Sustainability in (agri-food) supply chain operations;
• Waste reduction in (agri-food) supply chain;
• Reduction of energy consumption in supply chains;
• Collaboration and sustainability in supply chains;
• Behavioral factors and sustainable supply chain and inventory management;
• Circular supply chain management;
• Closed-loop supply chain management;
• Trade-offs between sustainability criteria;
• Uncertainty and sustainability.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yousef Ghiami
Dr. Masoud Chitsaz
Dr. Ayse Sena Eruguz
Guest Editors

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