Innovative solutions for sustainable supply chains

This book presents the latest decision making tools, techniques, and insightful solutions that decision makers utilize to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains. Given the ever increasing significance of socio-economic and environmental factors, the management of sustainable supply chains has become a complex and dynamic task. Multiple and conflicting objectives of stakeholders including suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, and retailers add to the complexity of decisions that modern day managers of supply chains face. With the unprecedented technological developments and innovations at hand, sustainability can be maximized for all the activities of a supply chain including: service concept and product design, material sourcing and procurement, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product, and end-of-life management of the product. Consequently, the sustainable supply chains' problems require a systematic and integrated approach. Modeling and simulation, in general, as well as system dynamics and agent-based modeling, in particular, have the capabilities to deal with the complexity of sustainable supply chain related problems. This book will appeal to professionals and researchers in the field.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	1423211775100 Qudrat-Ullah, H. (ed.)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Cham (Switzerland) Springer International Pub. AG 2018
Subjects:	food supply chain, sustainability, renewable energy, energy policies, econometric models,
Online Access:	https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-94322-0.pdf
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