The Sustainable Supply Chain: Concepts, Optimization and Simulation Models, and Trends

Abstract

Context: The environmental and social dimensions of performance are of great importance, given that they must be incorporated into strategic, tactical, and operational objectives in companies and supply chains to minimize negative impacts on the environment and society. Method: After reviewing the Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect databases for the topics of sustainability and supply chain management, a state of the art of green and sustainable supply chain management is presented, aiming to guide readers towards a synthesis of related concepts and future lines of research. Results: The reader is introduced to concepts and trends around the field of green and sustainable supply chain management to raise interest in new research and practices to guide the implementation of sustainability in organizations and their supply chains. Conclusions: Sustainable supply chain management still faces several academic and practical challenges in terms of implementation, performance measurement, and how models can capture a dynamic and uncertain social and environmental context. There are latent research issues such as management of the circular supply chain, applications in emerging economies, or the application of 4.0 technologies.

Modeling the impact of green supply chain practices on environmental performance: the mediating role of ecocentricity

“…In conclusion, the results have re-established that ecocentricity encourages companies to achieve better environmental, social and economic outcomes in cooperation with competitors, community members and NGOs that have been ignored or treated as enemies in the traditional chain. This result is consistent with prior studies(Gamboa-Bernal et al, 2020;…”

“…Mallikarathna and Silva (2019) averred that GSCM is an integration of green thinking into SCM, including product development, materials sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product to the consumer and end-of-life. Prior studies (Gamboa-Bernal, 2020;Han and Huo, 2020;Acquah et al, 2021;Habib et al, 2022) have linked SCM and logistics activities including packaging, transportation and distribution to environmental pollution, and a threat to the planet of which current study argues that the Oil Marketing and Distribution Companies in Ghana are not exceptional.…”

“…, 2019) and is widely used by organizations in a variety of activities to reduce environmental impacts, including waste management goals for industrial systems to save energy, prevent the release of hazardous substances into the environment and identify unwarranted environmental impacts of an organization's supply chain activities (Cousins et al. , 2019; Gambo Bernal et al. , 2020).…”

“…Mallikarathna and Silva (2019) averred that GSCM is an integration of green thinking into SCM, including product development, materials sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product to the consumer and end-of-life. Prior studies (Gamboa-Bernal, 2020; Han and Huo, 2020; Acquah et al. , 2021; Habib et al.…”

“…, but has received less empirical attention(Gamboa-Bernal et al, 2020). According to the NRBV, the notion of supply chain ecocentricity encompasses the collaborative, relational, and cultural characteristics of particularly complex organizations that can be easily replicated by other organizations.…”