Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value: Management Issues, Insights, Concepts, and Tools-Foundations

by Robert P. Sroufe, Steven A. Melnyk

Overview

This book provides a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds. Some of the key features of this book include:

• Short vignettes of important trends along with relevant management issues;
• Evidence-based management examples from leading multinational companies, as well as small and medium enterprises spanning supply chains;
• References to appropriate tools, emerging technology, and practices;
• Chapter action items for the reader to take a deeper look at integration opportunities involving sustainability and supply chain management;
• An action-learning approach to applying concepts and tools so readers from any functional perspective can implement and manage sustainability projects;
• and guidelines on how to move forward with your supply chain sustainability initiative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631578502
Publisher:	Business Expert Press
Publication date:	08/24/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Robert P. Sroufe is the Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness in the John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business at Duquesne University. Within the top ten ranked MBA Sustainability program, he is responsible for delivering information on sustainable theories and models for innovation, business applications of sustainability, and oversees graduate academic consulting projects every semester with corporate sponsors. He is a researcher and consultant in operationalizing sustainable business practices, strategic sustainability, environmental management systems, green supply chain management, and green purchasing.
Steven A. Melnyk is professor of operations and supply chain management and received his PhD from The Ivey School, University of Western Ontario in 1981 at Michigan State University. He has co-authored 14 books on operations and supply chain management, and sits on the editorial review board for Production and Inventory Management, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (where he is co-author for North America), and the International Journal of Production Research.