Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Dimensions and aspects

Abstract

Over the past 10 years, it is figured out by the firms that effective strategies are needed for increasing the competitiveness of their supply chains. Therefore, the supply chain's traditional view has been developed to sustainable supply chain perspective. Organizations that emphasize on the importance of sustainability will benefit from improved performance. For categorizing the supply chain indicators, sustainability deployment is necessary to identify the second layer or dimensions and aspects of sustainability in addition to the main sustainability dimensions such as the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Literature has shown that in the important paradigm of sustainability, careful attention is not paid to the distinction between dimensions and aspects of sustainability. Therefore, for smoothing implementation and assessment of sustainability, consideration of the role and effect of dimensions and aspects of sustainability is essential. This paper is conducted by two fundamental and practical objectives. First, the dimensions and aspects of sustainability have been investigated and identified highlighting the lacks of conflicts in the literature. Second, the most important dimensions and aspects of sustainability are identified in one of the supply chains of Iran's oil companies using experts' opinions. The results of this research is beneficial for the researchers to consider the sustainability aspects and improve the related measures of their industries.

Evaluation of sustainable supply chain management performance: Indicators

“…The previous work of the authors of the current paper examined the aspects and components of sustainability, highlighting the lack of conflict in the literature and identifying key aspects and components of sustainability (Narimissa, Kangarani-Farahani, & Molla-Alizadeh-Zavardehi, 2019). This paper demonstrates the importance of sustainable supply chain indicators in sustainability supply chain performance evaluation models to classify the three types of performance measurement indicators for all supply chain segments.…”

“…The previous work of the authors of the current paper examined the aspects and components of sustainability, highlighting the lack of conflict in the literature and identifying key aspects and components of sustainability (Narimissa, Kangarani‐Farahani, & Molla‐Alizadeh‐Zavardehi, ).…”

Drivers and barriers for implementation and improvement of Sustainable Supply Chain Management

“…This study consists of 30 supply chain management experts in Iran's oil companies. The criteria for selecting experts are as follows (Narimissa et al, ): experts with more than 10 years of experience and experts with a master's degree in supply chain management. The questionnaire was presented to the participants in the oil industry network, and a 9‐point Likert scale was used to gather expert opinions and design the first questionnaire of the Delphi study. The first questionnaire was designed by the researcher using 153 drivers and barriers from the previous stage.…”

Evaluación del desempeño de la cadena de suministro sostenible enfocada en procesos

“…La CS vista desde una perspectiva económica, ambiental y social ha llamado la atención de los investigadores, dado el aumento de la conciencia social respecto a estas dimensiones. Al mismo tiempo, se ha producido un cambio en las filosofías tradicionales de gestión (Mediavilla, Errasti y Domingo, 2011), ya que, además de velar por los objetivos económicos, también se debe cumplir con objetivos sociales y ambientales (Mishra, Gunasekaran, Papadopoulos y Hazen, 2017;Narimissa et al, 2020;Saeed y Kersten, 2017;Tyagi, Kumar y Kumar, 2018). A este nuevo enfoque se le denomina gestión de la CSS (Ala-Harja y Helo, 2016; Feitó-Cespón, Cespón-Castro y Rubio-Rodríguez, 2016).…”

“…El incremento de la complejidad de las cadenas de suministros (CS) lleva a que los investigadores reconozcan la necesidad de medir y monitorear su funcionamiento, para evaluar el desempeño organizacional, gestionar efectivamente las actividades y ser más competitivo (Avelar-Sosa, García-Alcaraz y Maldonado-Macías, 2019; Hemalatha, Rao, Rambabu y Venkatasubbaiah, 2017; Sánchez-Flores, Ojeda-Benítez, Cruz-Sotelo y Navarro-González, 2020). Esta complejidad es consistente con la cantidad de actores presentes, por lo que ha sido un aspecto debatido en la literatura (Narimissa, Kangarani-Farahani y Molla-Alizadeh-Zavardehi, 2020;Mohaghar, 2014). También se reconocen las necesidades de medir el desempeño de la CS (Ahi y Searcy, 2015), de poseer capacidades ágiles como condiciones necesarias para maximizar el desempeño de la cadena de suministro sostenible (Gey, Yusuf, Menhat, Abubakar y Ogbuke, 2020) y de administrar la relación entre los participantes y sus recursos (Icarte-Ahumada, 2016).…”