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Supply Chain Strategy and Sustainable Business Organization

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 11775

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Juan-José Alfaro-Saiz

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Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: sustainability and performance management; performance management in organisations; supply chain strategy; collaborative performance management systems
Prof. Dr. Raúl Rodríguez-Rodríguez

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Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: sustainability and performance management; intangible assets performance management systems; supply chain strategy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Supply chains are dynamic systems that need to adapt to the environment requirements. It is essential to define strategies that allow them a global sustainable development. In this sense, some factors have an important role: power struggles between partners; difficulty achieving confidence and equity; integration and process organization; intra and inter-organisational context; shared vision of the sustainable business concept; different levels of maturity, etc.

All these factors and many others make it difficult, from a practical point of view, to establish supply chain strategy and deploy it so that it has an organizational impact on the partners, in such a way that the business sustainability is a real priority. In addition, it is also important to assess whether the defined strategy is fulfilling its purpose, whether the level of integration of the processes is as expected, and the desired degree of sustainability is really being achieved.

The Special Issue of Sustainability titled ‘Supply Chain Strategy and Sustainable Business Organization’ aims to analyze the problems described through works that address, from different perspectives, any of the aforementioned aspects. Conceptual frameworks, empirical studies, case studies, research articles with models, methodologies and systems, or even literature reviews are welcome.

The potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Challenges to developing a sustainable business through the supply chain strategy
  • New frameworks to connect supply chain strategy and sustainable business organization
  • Tools to measure the success of the supply chain strategy and its influence on sustainable business organization
  • Barriers to integrating sustainable business organization with supply chain strategy
  • Supply chain strategy integration into the partners' sustainability vision
  • Supply chain sustainable strategies vs individual sustainable strategies
  • Performance management systems in sustainable supply chains
  • Business processes to support supply chain strategy under a sustainability approach

Dr. Juan-José Alfaro-Saiz
Prof. Dr. Raúl Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • supply chain strategy
  • sustainable business organization
  • barriers to integrating sustainable business organization
  • sustainable supply chains
  • business processes
  • performance management systems
  • supply chain strategy integration

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Model Based Analysis of Innovation in Sustainable Supply Chains
by Jesús Morcillo-Bellido, Luis Isasi-Sanchez, Isabel Garcia-Gutierrez and Alfonso Duran-Heras
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 4868; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094868 - 26 Apr 2021
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Innovation supports the development of Sustainable Supply Chains (SSCs) through Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI) practices. This study aims to validate and further develop, through its practical application, a baseline SOI practices framework, which can be used as a benchmark model. While applying and validating [...] Read more.
Innovation supports the development of Sustainable Supply Chains (SSCs) through Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI) practices. This study aims to validate and further develop, through its practical application, a baseline SOI practices framework, which can be used as a benchmark model. While applying and validating this framework, several new, conceptually distinctive SOI practices were identified that were not included in the proposed baseline model. This led the authors to propose expanding the initial baseline model with a new category of “transversal” SOI practices, so that the expanded model provides a more comprehensive view of the mechanisms that foster innovation at SSCs. These “transversal” SOI practices are highly contingent on the adopting company’s traits and strategy, thus suggesting that they might be a major conduit through which its strategy is reflected in its SSCM. Besides their transversal and contingent nature, another key trait of the identified SOI practices is their integrated, dynamic, time-dependent, feedback-loop-based interrelationship. These findings suggest the potential effectiveness, for processes such as sustainability innovation that involve substantial time lags, to reposition top management focus and performance evaluation “upstream” in the causal chain. This potentially promising approach involves shifting focus from results (particularly short-term results) to its causes (processes, methods), and systematically managing the ensuing feedback loops. Full article
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Influence of Strategic Interrelationships and Decision-Making in Chilean Port Networks on Their Degree of Sustainability
by Claudia Durán, Fredi Palominos, Raúl Carrasco and Eduardo Carrillo
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 3959; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073959 - 2 Apr 2021
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An extensive literary review is carried out to determine the strategic and business advantages, and difficulties that non-smart ports must face to develop sustainability. Based on a two-port case study, the strategic text of the corporate missions of port administrators and operators is [...] Read more.
An extensive literary review is carried out to determine the strategic and business advantages, and difficulties that non-smart ports must face to develop sustainability. Based on a two-port case study, the strategic text of the corporate missions of port administrators and operators is analyzed and classified in order to understand to what extend economic, social and environmental aspects are fulfilled. A conceptual model is designed for an information system based on indicators that can determine the state or degree of sustainability in the critical operational activities of the ports studied. A system is proposed that is based on a data warehouse core and a multidimensional database, which can be implemented in the ROLAP mode, allowing taking advantage of the good characteristics of relational databases without losing the OLAP approach. A discussion of the strategic feasibility of implementing this conceptual model of case study monitoring and its long-term benefits is delivered. The conclusions state that the development of this green technology requires cultural changes, public policy initiatives and the incorporation of new actors. In addition, more research is needed in this area to identify other relevant sustainable variables. Full article
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An Approach to Assess Sustainable Supply Chain Agility for a Manufacturing Organization
by Ayoub Al-Zabidi, Ateekh Ur Rehman and Mohammed Alkahtani
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 1752; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041752 - 6 Feb 2021
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Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in a dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution of this research is to explore and evaluate sustainable agility in supply chains for a dairy manufacturing organization located [...] Read more.
Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in a dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution of this research is to explore and evaluate sustainable agility in supply chains for a dairy manufacturing organization located in Saudi Arabia. Other contributions of this research are to update the literature about the different factors contributing to achieve agile supply chain, propose conceptual framework and assessment approach incorporating the relationships between sustainable supply-chain capabilities, enablers, and attributes, and shortlisting the agility barriers and how they would facilitate manufacturing organizations’ performance. The paper presents supply chain agility evaluation approach, which covers identification of agile supply-chain capabilities and drivers. It also presents a conceptual model and a framework to define agility level and barriers within the supply-chain. In the paper, fuzzy logic approach is preferred, owing to its capability to incorporate and deal with problems involving impreciseness and vagueness phenomena. Threshold-value in this study for the case organization is set to 0.24829. The outcome of the adopted approach indicates that 21 attributes performed below the threshold value; these attributes are further categorized as agility barriers. These are the barriers within their supply chain that impact the agility-level. For the case organization, the foremost priority is to enhance maintainability and serviceability to make it flexible and inexpensive to establish an agile responsive supply chain. At the same time, it should have priority to focus on development and integration of their core competencies to deal with cross-functional and cross-enterprise issues in supply chain. For the case organization, the agility level was found “very agile,” although it is below the “extremely agile.” Thus, a study was developed to understand the behaviour of the supply chain agility and assess/evaluate it to support decision makers in order to develop a strategic solution for different organizational barriers. Full article
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Pricing Decisions and Innovation Strategies Choice in Supply Chain with Competing Manufacturers and Common Supplier
by Bin Liu, Guohua Yang and Qi Zhang
Sustainability 2020, 12(21), 8855; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218855 - 25 Oct 2020
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This paper evaluates efficacy of supplier and manufacturer innovation under an asymmetric competing supply chain consisting of one supplier and two manufacturers. We depict pricing decisions and innovation strategies under three models, namely, benchmark model, supplier-led, and manufacturer-led innovation models. It is shown [...] Read more.
This paper evaluates efficacy of supplier and manufacturer innovation under an asymmetric competing supply chain consisting of one supplier and two manufacturers. We depict pricing decisions and innovation strategies under three models, namely, benchmark model, supplier-led, and manufacturer-led innovation models. It is shown that although the supplier is motivated to innovate, all innovation strategies have more profits than single innovation strategies. In addition, when no manufacturer creates the product, one manufacturer will obtain a good profit from the innovation, while facing the competitor, the other manufacturer will have incentive to innovate. Moreover, we also evaluate implications of innovation strategy for consumer welfare and overall supply chain efficiency. Full article
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