Supply Chain Management - A Three Dimensional Framework

Abstract

The concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM) embraced the concern for environmental degradation and social responsibility in business management. This inclusiveness of ideas to SCM is being deliberated by the researchers as Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM). The research paper employs integrative literature review approach to review, assess critically, and synthesize representative literature on the topic in an integrated way to suggest a new perspective of a three-dimensional framework. The paper integrates the idea of sustainability in supply chain management and suggests a Supply Chain (SC), Management (M) and Sustainability (S) as three dimensions of SSCM and delineates its constituents and their inter-relationships. The three levels of sustainability dimensions such as innovation, ISSN 1941-899X 2013 www.macrothink.org/jmr 77 environment and social have similar hierarchical structure as operational, tactical and strategic levels of management. To make a SC sustainable, all SC actors have to ensure their performance on all the three levels of management and sustainability dimension. The framework is comprehensive and will help the practitioners to have a better conceptualization, design and plan for a sustainable supply chain. Journal of Management Research

Supply chain sustainability led by governance: A multicase propositive study in Brazil

“…The semi‐structured interview guide (Exhibit ) was developed based on the literature review and, particularly, on the approaches of Carter and Rogers () and Gupta et al. ().…”

“…Gupta, Abidi, and Bandyopadhayay () propose a three‐dimensional framework to achieve SSCM. On the “x” axis are the members of the supply chain, suppliers, focal company/manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and consumers.…”

“…The originality of the model of Gupta et al. () is in the “z” axis, in which the three dimensions of sustainability, which are based on TBL—the economic/innovation dimension, the environmental dimension, and the social dimension—are represented. Gupta et al.…”

“…Gupta et al. () describe the expected results of the integration of sustainability in relation to each member/actor of the supply chain, as summarized in the table in Exhibit . As this Exhibit highlights, in the social dimension the sustainability integrating aspects are exactly the same for all actors in the chain because they were originally constituted as social systems.…”

Application of Multi-criteria Approach for Sustainability Assessment of Manufacturing Processes

“…[ [57][58][59] Quality process and environmentally-conscious product design approach (8) Engineering approach within lean, innovative product development; quality of conformance, customer attitudes and support for sustainability, implementation of quality best practices.…”