Future Trends in Operationalizing Sustainability in Production and Supply Chain Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability in operations and supply chain management; optimization and fuzzy decision making in business and management; quality management and engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your recent and future works in the scope of sustainability in production and supply chain management from an operationalizing point of view.
Management of supply chains is an important challenge among industrialists and scientific researchers. The starting point of these issues is the procurement of raw materials that concludes with the satisfaction of customer demands via the desirable delivery of the completed products (Dakhely Parast et al., 2021). In today’s competitive environment, supply chain managers attempt to maximize profits and minimize their costs, due to increased concerns about reducing raw materials, increasing waste, increasing pollutants, spreading pollution and given that failure to observe ethical issues and responsibilities will increase costs. They seek to reduce adversarial environmental impacts and to increase social satisfaction. Organizations are at a critical and complex phase, which must operate in a complex and dynamic environment to overcome the challenges (Avakh Darestani and Hojjat Shamami, 2019)
Sustainability includes environmental, social and economic aspects. Sustainable supply chain is one that addresses environmental and social issues alongside its economic performance to sustain itself. Recently, environmental and social considerations have been considered by organizations. As supply chain managers seek to maximize profit, minimize operating costs, reduce negative environmental impacts and increase social satisfaction, as well as sustainability thinking in business because of increased quality. Sustainable supply chain is difficult and sometimes impossible to achieve due to the increase of interactions between the modern supply chain and the increase of communications. Factors such as political issues, demand fluctuations, global financial crisis, technological substitution, natural disasters, are the dangers that make supply chain managers losing their readiness when they enter these developments. In this regard, sustainable strategies should consider the extent of future uncertainty and decisions that can create risks for the natural and social environment (Tavakoli Haji Abadi and Avakh Darestani, 2021).
In this respect, the main aim of this special issue is in about operationalizing sustainability in productions and supply chain management areas (e.g. green logistic management, sustainable or green supplier evaluation and selection, green lean production, application of decision making techniques in sustainable supply chain and operations management, green manufacturing, green lean manufacturing, sustainable supply chain performance, evaluation of sustainable supply chain risks, green operations, green reverse supply chain network, green procurement).
Avakh Darestani, S, and Hojjat Shamami, N (2019). Performance Evaluation of Lean Production Based on Balanced Score Card Method Using ANP and SIR: A case from Iranian Home appliance industry. OPSEARCH, 56, 717–738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12597-019-00391-2
Zarrat Dakhely Parast, Z., Haleh, H., Avakh Darestani, S. et al. Green reverse supply chain network design considering location-routing-inventory decisions with simultaneous pickup and delivery. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13770-4
Tavakoli Haji Abadi, Y. and Avakh Darestani, S. (2021), "Evaluation of sustainable supply chain risk: evidence from the Iranian food industry", Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-08-2020-0121
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews, novel case studies are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Operationalizing sustainability in supply chain management
- Operationalizing Sustainability in production management
- Green logistic management
- Sustainable or green supplier evaluation and selection
- Green Lean production
- Application of decision making techniques in sustainability supply chain and operations management
- Green lean manufacturing
- Sustainable performance and supply chain management
- Evaluation of sustainable supply chain risk
- Green operations
- Sustainable supply chain performance
- Green reverse supply chain network
- Green procurement
Dr. Soroush Darestani Avakh Darestani
Prof. Dr. Md Yusof Bin Ismail
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- operationalizing sustainability in supply chain management
- operationalizing sustainability in production management
- green logistic management
- sustainable or green supplier evaluation and selection
- green lean manufacturing
- application of decision-making techniques in sustainability supply chain and operations management
- green manufacturing
- sustainable performance and supply chain management
- evaluation of sustainable supply chain risk
- green operations
- sustainable supply chain performance
- green reverse supply chain network
- green procurement
