A French Guide for Businesses and Governments to Integrate the Concept of Sustainable Development Into Their Supply Chains

Abstract

Sustainable development is a new form of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. In this context, sustainable development needs to be at the crossroads between three pillars: the economic pillar, the social pillar, and the environmental pillar. But the question is raised: how do companies integrate the notion of sustainable development internally into their supply chain process? To answer this question, based on a literature review, the authors are interested in two points in particular. First, they will see the implementation of sustainable development in the production process and the change in costs, then in terms of the new internal systems of corporate social responsibility. The results of this work can be used by governments, companies, and researchers to integrate sustainable development in their decisions.