Soft Drink Supply Chain Sustainability: A Case Based Approach to Identify and Explain Best Practices and Key Performance Indicators

Demartini, Melissa; Pinna, Claudia; Aliakbarian, Bahar; Tonelli, Flavio; Terzi, Sergio

doi:10.3390/su10103540

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“…In this context, is necessary to stimulate companies to adopt sustainability in their strategies. In fact, several studies have demonstrated how a sustainable strategy can positively affect company performance, underlining the advantages in terms of positive reputation and savings due to the efficiency of the resources used [63,64]. For example, Banyte et al [65] stated that eco-compatibility helps companies recognize customers' new environmental awareness and can provide a real competitive advantage.…”

Section: Discussion and Final Remarksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One strength of the SBSC lies in its ability to bridge the gap between strategic and operative levels, identifying environmental and social aspects that are necessary to secure a company's financial success [60,61]. The SBSC is one of the most effective system in integrating all sustainability dimension and strategy [62][63][64][65][66].…”

Section: Sustainability Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Implementing Sustainable Strategies

2019

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The role of sustainability dimensions in the value creation process has attracted considerable interest in the scientific academic world in the last two decades. The 2030 Agenda, which fixed the sustainable goals (SDGs) to safeguard our planet, highlighted the fundamental role of sustainability issues. In this context, companies around the world need to integrate their strategies with environmental, social, and economic dimensions. However, sustainability aspects are often not linked to company strategies, and there has been growing difficulty in measuring sustainable development by adopting an appropriate set of key performance indicators (KPIs). Accordingly, the aim of this study is as follows: (1) to identify the suitable KPIs that affect company performance, based on the literature and management practices, and (2) to propose a new perspective on a way to integrate sustainability issues in company strategies. Based on a systematic procedure, we obtained 82 papers that focus on KPIs related to sustainability issues. Following a review of papers and a survey conducted with Italian managers, we developed a sustainability perspective by selecting the most appropriate KPI system for each of the dimensions discussed. The proposed model suggests that incorporating sustainability dimensions within corporate strategy would allow strategic alignment in order to gain competitive advantage and therefore create sustainability value.

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Section: Discussion and Final Remarksmentioning

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Section: Sustainability Perspectivementioning

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The Role of Sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Implementing Sustainable Strategies

2019

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“…By taking into account the environmental and societal implications of company operations, sustainability decisions can become integral to companies' decision-making, planning, and customer and supplier relationships [6]. Companies keen on aiding the sustainability of the natural environment will refocus their production processes on reducing resource intensity, redesigning their industrial systems, and rethinking their business models [7,8]. Some companies have displayed their treatment of the natural environment as a primary stakeholder through their environmental leadership.…”

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Environmental Performance, Customer Satisfaction, and Profitability: A Study among Large U.S. Companies

Mendonca

Zhou

2019

Sustainability

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The academic community has been advocating for companies to focus on improving their environmental performance. While companies are increasingly taking environmental action driven mainly by top management commitment, there is interest in understanding whether by contributing to the sustainability of the natural environment companies can gain the satisfaction of their other stakeholders and in a manner that facilitates their competitiveness. With the use of partial least squares structural equation modeling among a sample of large U.S. publicly traded companies, this study investigates the role of customer satisfaction in driving an effect of companies’ environmental performance on their long-term oriented profitability. The results show that customer satisfaction positively affects the long-term oriented profitability of companies. However, customers are generally not satisfied with companies’ environmental performance. An opportunity, therefore, exists for companies to adopt new approaches to their environmental performance that are particularly focused away from reducing the use of environmental resources. An opportunity also exists for guidance to companies on environmental performance measurement metrics that reflect their involvement in the promotion of the sustainability of the natural environment.

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“…The food industry has an important effect on the sustainability of the supply chains especially from the environmental aspect. In this context, Demartini et al [48] analyzed the sustainability in soft drink supply chains to determine the sustainable best practices and the key performance indicators that are the most related to the sustainability issues. Guo et al [49] proposed a hybrid genetic algorithm approach to examine how the supply chain sustainability can be affected by the coordination between the production and transportation by considering several features such as departure times and transportation modes.…”

Section: Sustainability In Supply Chains and Cross-docksmentioning

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Multi-Objective Sustainable Truck Scheduling in a Rail–Road Physical Internet Cross-Docking Hub Considering Energy Consumption

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In the context of supply chain sustainability, Physical Internet (PI or π ) was presented as an innovative concept to create a global sustainable logistics system. One of the main components of the Physical Internet paradigm consists in encapsulating products in modular and standardized PI-containers able to move via PI-nodes (such as PI-hubs) using collaborative routing protocols. This study focuses on optimizing operations occurring in a Rail–Road PI-Hub cross-docking terminal. The problem consists of scheduling outbound trucks at the docks and the routing of PI-containers in the PI-sorter zone of the Rail–Road PI-Hub cross-docking terminal. The first objective is to minimize the energy consumption of the PI-conveyors used to transfer PI-containers from the train to the outbound trucks. The second objective is to minimize the cost of using outbound trucks for different destinations. The problem is formulated as a Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Programming model (MO-MIP) and solved with CPLEX solver using Lexicographic Goal Programming. Then, two multi-objective hybrid meta-heuristics are proposed to enhance the computational time as CPLEX was time consuming, especially for large size instances: Multi-Objective Variable Neighborhood Search hybridized with Simulated Annealing (MO-VNSSA) and with a Tabu Search (MO-VNSTS). The two meta-heuristics are tested on 32 instances (27 small instances and 5 large instances). CPLEX found the optimal solutions for only 23 instances. Results show that the proposed MO-VNSSA and MO-VNSTS are able to find optimal and near optimal solutions within a reasonable computational time. The two meta-heuristics found optimal solutions for the first objective in all the instances. For the second objective, MO-VNSSA and MO-VNSTS found optimal solutions for 7 instances. In order to evaluate the results for the second objective, a one way analysis of variance ANOVA was performed.

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Soft Drink Supply Chain Sustainability: A Case Based Approach to Identify and Explain Best Practices and Key Performance Indicators

Cited by 35 publications

References 52 publications

The Role of Sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Implementing Sustainable Strategies

The Role of Sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Implementing Sustainable Strategies

Environmental Performance, Customer Satisfaction, and Profitability: A Study among Large U.S. Companies

Multi-Objective Sustainable Truck Scheduling in a Rail–Road Physical Internet Cross-Docking Hub Considering Energy Consumption

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