Pursuing supply chain sustainable development goals through the adoption of green practices and enabling technologies: A cross-country analysis of LSPs

2020 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 119920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piera Centobelli ◽  
Roberto Cerchione ◽  
Emilio Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Country Analysis ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Cross Country

A Roadmap for Sustainable Development Through Responsible Sourcing in Construction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sophie Ball ◽  
Colin A Booth ◽  
Abdul–Majeed Mahamadu ◽  
Patrick Manu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Green Supply Chains ◽  
Responsible Sourcing

Responsible sourcing and green supply chains are becoming dominant tools towards procuring materials in a sustainable manner across the architecture, engineering and construction sector to achieve the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. The aim of this study was to provide a structured review of responsible sourcing literature to identify the potential opportunities and obstacles towards the accomplishment of a roadmap for the sector to support delivery of the goals. The main opportunities included competitive advantage, stakeholder value and improved supply chain management. The main obstacles included cost, deficiencies in structured frameworks and an array of industry specific constraints. These were aligned with the goals to produce a roadmap, validated by industry experts. For fruition, it is surmised that refocusing the industry in recent years combined with achievement of the goals will stimulate innovative technical solutions to produce truly sustainable development.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Transparency to Safeguard Fashion Industry Workers

Pro Futuro ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewan Afrina Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Soft Laws ◽  
Voluntary Initiatives

The global fashion industry has the most dynamic complex supply chain. A completed garment or footwear reaches consumers through different brands, from developing countries to Western countries. The workers at the bottom of the supply chain, who work hard to produce a product, earn  minimum wages. On the top of the supply chain, the owners of the factories, brands and retailers earn huge profits from these labourers’ hard work. Because of the lack of direct control over  labourers, as they are not employed by the brands and retailers, they often ignore the abuse of labourers’ rights  in their supply chain. To improve the fashion industries’ working conditions and to maintain workers’ rights,  strong labour law and its implementation is not sufficient. The brands andretailers can play a vital role in changing the labourers’ conditions. By incorporating soft laws like the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector (OECD Due Diligence Guidance on Garments), in their responsible business behaviour. The IFAs between the brands and the tread unions. The brands and retailers took some voluntary initiatives to incorporate these soft laws. Among the many voluntary initiatives, the Transparency Pledge of 2016 and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have  had a significant impact on  labour rights in the supply chain. This article is to evaluate how the Transparency Pledge of 2016 has impacted labour protection in the global fashion industry and how far transparency and incorporation on sustainable development goals (SDGs) has improved  labourers’ abusive conditions in the fashion industry supply chain. This shall be done by analyzing the Human Rights Watch’s reports, ILO, better works and other labour organisations’ reports. What further initiatives can be taken to improve the labourers’ conditions.

Supply chain viability in the context of COVID-19 pandemic in small and medium-sized enterprises: implications for sustainable development goals

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumaiya Benta Nasir ◽  
Tazim Ahmed ◽  
Chitra Lekha Karmaker ◽  
Syed Mithun Ali ◽  
Sanjoy Kumar Paul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Decision Aid ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Interpretive Structural Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Development Goals

PurposeThe recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely disrupted the operations of global supply chains (SCs) providing an opportunity for decision-makers to rethink and tune their existing strategies. To tackle the impacts caused by such a pandemic, this study aims to examine the contextual relations among the factors influencing supply chain viability (SCV) for achieving long-term Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Design/methodology/approachA decision-aid approach by integrating Pareto analysis, grey theory and total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) has been propounded. The proposed approach examines contextual relations among the factors for SCV for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging economy. This study contributes to theory, methodology and practice by exploring a new research problem in the context of the SCV and COVID-19 pandemic and by developing a new decision-aid approach.FindingsThe findings reveal that the creation of SC digital twin and transformation of SCs to supply networks would help the policymakers to deal with the “new normal.” Also, SC crowdfunding and policy development for health protocols are critical driving factors influencing SCV.Originality/valueThis research work is perhaps one of few initial attempts to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of SCV and to achieve SDGs in industries following a pandemic risk.

scholarly journals Sustainability Orientation and Focus in Logistics and Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3280
Author(s):  
Sebastjan Lazar ◽  
Dorota Klimecka-Tatar ◽  
Matevz Obrecht
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Development Goals

Sustainable development, logistics, and supply chain are being combined into three increasingly connected and topical global research areas. Therefore, this paper’s novelty identifies and defines the priorities of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and sustainable development dimensions in supply-chain- and logistics-management-related studies in the last decade. Knowing logistics and supply chain sustainability focus and orientation is valuable information for researchers and managers to adapt and mitigate their business logistics according to the forecasted trends. The paper provides a systematic and comprehensive review of the literature and is based on 116 scientific papers published between 2010 and 2020 in 73 international journals in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The study defines focus with integrating environmental, social, and economic sustainability for logistics- and supply-chain-related studies. It emphasizes primary and secondary links of investigated studies with 17 United Nations sustainable development goals. The bibliometric analysis also examined keyword relations. One of the main contributions is that economic sustainability was identified as the most represented one-dimensional sustainability focus. It was revealed that supply chain studies integrated all three sustainability dimensions more frequently (50.60%) than logistics studies, which were equally related to studying two- or three-dimensions of sustainability (39.39%). The most significant findings are also that studies were identified to be oriented primarily towards “responsible consumption and production”, “industry, innovation, and infrastructure” and “affordable and clean energy” and secondary especially on “sustainable cities and communities”.

scholarly journals The compatibility of the triple-a agri-food supply chain with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 899 (1) ◽  
pp. 012002
Author(s):  
M Kontopanou ◽  
G T Tsoulfas ◽  
N P Rachaniotis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract The triple-a supply chain model focuses on ensuring the agility, adaptability, and alignment of the supply chains in order to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. These characteristics have extended the supply chain desired traits from just being cost-effective and responsive. The agri-food supply chains include a diverse range of products, which differentiate in various aspects such as processing, life-cycle, seasonality, vulnerability, etc. These characteristics lead to different supply chain typologies and various requirements for synergies among stakeholders in order to meet these objectives. The situation gets even more complicated when sustainability objectives enter into the supply chain design and operation process. The scope of this paper is to analyze and assess the compatibility of the triple-a agri-food supply chain with the UN sustainable development goals and outline the interventions that could facilitate decision-making concerning the design and operation of sustainable agri-food supply chains.

scholarly journals Meat supply chain in the perspective of UN SDGs

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-247
Author(s):  
I. V. Djekic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Livestock Farmers

This paper presents an overview of the meat supply chain in the perspective of main UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). To perform this overview, meat supply chain was presented with five main stakeholders (livestock farmers, slaughterhouses, meat processors, retailers and consumers). As this chain is specific, four SDGs have been revealed as most important, as follows: SDG6 — Clean water and sanitation; SDG7 — Affordable and clean energy; SDG12 — Sustainable consumption and production; SDG13 — Climate action. Discussion and literature review was performed for each of the four UN SDGs. In addition, other UN SDGs of interest for this supply chain have been briefly presented.

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