Assessing people‐driven factors for circular economy practices in small and medium‐sized enterprise supply chains: Business strategies and environmental perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrick Betuel Sawe ◽  
Anil Kumar ◽  
Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes ◽  
Rohit Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Strategies

Leadership for a climate resilient, net-zero health system: Transforming supply chains to the circular economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 084047042110036
Author(s):  
Neil H. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Zero Carbon ◽  
Single Use

The global pandemic has taught us that we can focus the attention of the healthcare system on a clear intention when there is a looming threat. Climate action is required from multiple stakeholders particularly private sector suppliers in order to achieve the net-zero carbon emission by 2050 goal established by the Canadian government. Also building climate resilience among healthcare institutions and their supply chains is urgently needed, as they are already affected by a changing climate. By adopting a circular economy framework, the industry can move away from the current damaging take, make waste economic model and adopt a more sustainable model characterized by designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Health leaders can adopt sharing platforms, product as a service, reduce single use products, encourage extended producer responsibility, and value-based procurement in order to further these aims.

Improving sustainable supply chains performance through operational excellence: circular economy approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 236-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Sehnem ◽  
Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour ◽  
Susana Carla Farias Pereira ◽  
Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chains ◽  
Operational Excellence

scholarly journals Optimizing the polymer waste supply chains based on circular economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Skrypko ◽  
Nazariy Popadynets ◽  
Tetiana Yakhno ◽  
Roman Shulla ◽  
Tetiana Vlasenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Polymer Waste ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Use Of Resources

The paper shows the results of an empirical study on the optimization of polymer waste supply chains based on the circular economy in Ukraine. The research shows that the main links in the activity should be harmonized for quality and quick optimization of polymer waste supply chains, including the processes of collecting, sorting, treatment, processing, and recycling of resources for maintaining the quality by total cost reduction. The research argues that the circular economy that stipulates the easy processing, recycling, disassembling, and restoring of products replaced the traditional linear model “take, produce, and throw out” that has dominated the economy by now. The study shows that the transformation of supply chains in production ecosystems forms competitive advantages at the enterprises that allow them to be more productive through efficient use of resources.

A Conceptual Framework for Food Loss and Waste in Agri-Food Supply Chains: Circular Economy Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Yaşanur Kayıkcı ◽  
Nazlıcan Gözaçan ◽  
Çisem Lafcı ◽  
Yiğit Kazançoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Food Supply Chains

Local Supply Chains and Circular Economy for Building Materials. The PLES Project in Sardinia

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
Giovanna Concu ◽  
Maria Maddalena Achenza ◽  
Roberto Baccoli ◽  
Andrea Frattolillo ◽  
Roberto Innamorati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Local Supply

Emergy Analysis and Supply Chains

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-92
Author(s):  
Lojain Alkhuzaim ◽  
Joseph Sarkis
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Emergy Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Stakeholder Pressures

The growth in stakeholder pressures, broader sustainable supply chain management practices, and new economic models such as circular economy, has made sustainability a priority for organizations and their supply chains. To be able to manage their activities, programs, processes, and strategies, organizations have adopted and developed performance measures. Unlike other performance measures, emergy analysis quantitatively provides a real value for the work of nature to evaluate performance beyond the traditional measures that have been traditionally presented in the supply chain literature. This chapter offers an introductory explanation of how and what emergy analysis can offer in evaluating the environmental performance of supply chains. It will also consider not only the capabilities of emergy analysis but also the limitations and much-needed research to advance both fields, EA and SSCM.

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