Environmental benefits of lean, green and resilient supply chain management: The case of the aerospace sector

Ruiz‐Benítez, Rocío; López, C.; Real, Juan C.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.07.201

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“…Eldho et al [55] compare the importance and performance of economic, social, and green sustainability practices in dyadic relationships at three supply chain levels: upstream, downstream, and the overall. On the other side of the coin, other research [56] determines which lean, green, and resilient practices are critical to improve sustainability in the aerospace manufacturing supply chain. These studies highlight that the IPA method has been successfully applied with similar purposes.…”

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On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Technological Innovations in Urban Bus Transport: The EU Case

2019

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Logistics in urban areas are currently suffering a radical transformation due to increasing population concentration and the massive use of cars as the preferred transport mode. These issues have resulted in higher pollution levels in urban environments and traffic congestion, impacting the world globally. Facilitating the use of sustainable transport modes is widely regarded as a necessity to cope with these adverse effects on citizens’ life quality. Hence, some regions, such as the European Union, are encouraging bus transport firms to make their business models more environmentally and socially sustainable. The aim of this research is thus to explore how technological innovations adopted by urban bus companies can improve cities’ sustainability. With this in mind, a combined Importance Performance Analysis (IPA)–Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was applied. In this way, their environmental and social sustainability effects were separately represented through hierarchical structures. Subsequently, the importance and performance ratings of technological innovations in each sustainability dimension were estimated, and thus two IPA grids were generated. These grids support managers in the establishment of more effective action plans to improve logistics sustainability in cities. The findings also provide guidance to governments on the technological innovations that should be promoted in future urban mobility plans.

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On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Technological Innovations in Urban Bus Transport: The EU Case

2019

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“…[34] compare the importance and performance of economic, social and green sustainability practices in dyadic relationships at three supply chain levels: upstream, downstream and the overall. On the other side of the coin, [35] determine what lean, green and resilient practices are critical to improve sustainability in the aerospace manufacturing supply chain.…”

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On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Urban Bus Transport Practices: The EU Case

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Logistics in urban areas are currently suffering a radical transformation due to increasingly population concentration and the massive use of cars as the preferred transport mode. These issues have resulted in higher pollution levels in urban environments and traffic congestion impacting the world globally. Facilitating the use of sustainable transport modes is widely regarded as a necessity to cope with these adverse effects on citizens’ life quality. Hence, some regions, as the European Union, are encouraging bus transport firms to make their business models more environmentally and socially sustainable. The aim of this research is thus to explore how practices adopted by urban bus companies can improve cities’ sustainability. With this in mind, a combined Importance Performance Analysis (IPA)-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was applied. In this way, both environmental and social sustainability effects of developed practices were represented through hierarchical structures separately. Subsequently, importance and performance ratings of practices in each sustainability dimension were estimated, and thus two IPA grids were generated. These grids support managers in the establishment of more effective action plans to improve logistics sustainability in cities. Findings also provide guidance to governments on the practices that should be promoted in future urban mobility plans.

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“…Due to their operating conditions, their results are restricted to very high-quality and reliable standards [75]. However, despite being a highly regulated sector, it is still possible to adopt innovative business models that allow operating in lean, agile, resilient manufacturing supply chains [76,77]. In this context, the development of aerospace technologies is very fast, and has stood out at the vanguard of many other industrial sectors.…”

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Standardizing Innovation Management: An Opportunity for SMEs in the Aerospace Industry

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In a globalized marketplace, the competition in the aerospace industry has increased significantly. Producers can choose between many suppliers. These suppliers have to comply with more requirements and technical specifications, as well as take on greater responsibilities that originally fell on producers. In this context, business opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are limited, but still suppliers must try to leverage the maximum strategic advantage of the few that present. Adopting research, development and innovation (R+D+i) practices has proven to bring great benefits to companies and allows them to gain significant competitive advantages. However, the process of designing, implementing and testing R+D+i-related processes is not straightforward, nor it has been addressed in the recent research on SMEs. In this paper, a case study of a Spanish innovative small company providing industrial metrology and quality services is analyzed. Thanks to an internal decision-making process, an R+D+i management system based on the UNE 166.002:2014 standard is eventually adopted. A pilot project is closely followed up to test the robustness of the system implementation. The R+D+i management system has allowed the company to streamline its innovation activities, establish objectives to better allocate essential resources, organize high performing innovation units within the organization structure, increase the clients’ confidence, improve the company’s competitiveness, carry out technological surveillance, and get more patented technology, among many others. Adoption steps taken by this SME are generalizable to other SMEs from other industries and show how an R+D+i management system can be chosen, designed, implemented and tested in the context of Industry 4.0 (I4.0).

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Environmental benefits of lean, green and resilient supply chain management: The case of the aerospace sector

Cited by 75 publications

References 84 publications

On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Technological Innovations in Urban Bus Transport: The EU Case

On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Technological Innovations in Urban Bus Transport: The EU Case

On the Environmental and Social Sustainability of Urban Bus Transport Practices: The EU Case

Standardizing Innovation Management: An Opportunity for SMEs in the Aerospace Industry

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