Building a Sustainable Supply Chain: Key Elements

A framework for sustainable supply chain in emerging economies

“…In this context, a PI is made up of ten variables: Environmental risks analysis (ERA) : The environment is an essential dimension of the TBL (Carter & Rogers, ), and in a proposed framework, it is imperative for organizations to achieve consistent positive outputs. Nevertheless, if an organization does not have an ERA practice, this means a non‐optimal positive output, but it does not necessarily mean positive output failure. Green supplier criteria (GSC) : Establishing measures to assess a supplier's performance (Kashmanian, ) is fundamental to modeling a supplier's green database and supporting the supplier selection process (Yu, Xue, Sun, & Zhang, ). Climate change policies (CCP) : CCP reflects challenges (Dubey et al., ), to any organization; because of this, policies associated with adaptation and mitigation should be considered. Product/service life cycle (PSLC) : A PSLC can improve the organization's environmental profit (Shi et al., ). In this perspective, organizations must increase investment in green information technology (Bai et al., ) and information systems (de Camargo Fiorini & Jabbour, ). Waste reduction policies (WRP) : A waste minimization (Hsu et al., ) policy is a complex PI, mainly for organizations that are not aware of the waste and pollutant emissions levels.…”

“…Because of this, GSD practices tend to improve CPPs. Recognition by society (RbS) : There are various environmental impacts on society (Rajeev et al., ). In this perspective, organizations that practice GSD are better able to achieve RbS as environmentally friendly organizations. Integration with society : Generating integration across the supply chain (Kashmanian, ) is essential for integrating with society. However, organizations often do not pay attention to this variable. GHG emissions reduction : Climate change (Dubey et al., ) is a harmful and incalculable consequence of GHG emissions.…”

“…Recent studies in this research field have highlighted the importance of sustainability and its impact on supply chain networks (SCN). For example, the need for a tool to monitor a supplier's sustainability performance (Kashmanian, ) has gained importance in supply chain strategies for sustainability governance. In this context, sustainable suppliers (Foerstl, Azadegan, Leppelt, & Hartmann, ; Hollos et al., ) are typically an issue that affects SSC.…”

Company Engagement in Community-Based Water Resource Projects: Improving Water Security

“…Companies may have less direct control over what happens in their supply chains, but their interest is often quite strong given their interest in improving product quality, maintaining a continuous and secure supply chain, reducing company risks, and protecting their reputation/brand, etc. (Kashmanian, ). According to the Carbon Disclosure Project:

The most significant issues for businesses are often not the most visible.

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“…As companies move along their path toward greater sustainability, they move along stages of complying with regulations, to performing better than the regulations require, to focusing on efforts beyond their fence lines (e.g., working with suppliers, customers, communities), and to focusing on efforts beyond their footprint (e.g., being restorative and having an overall positive impact on the environment) (Kashmanian, Wells, & Keenan, ). Along such a path are other connecting or parallel paths that have their own stages for advancement (Kashmanian, ). One of these paths can include how a company manages its use of water and impacts on water resources, how it engages with its suppliers, customers, and local communities, and its overall or net impact on water resources and water security (these pathway steps are described further below).…”