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“GSCM encompasses a set of environmental practices that encourage improvements to the environmental practices of two or more organizations within the same supply chain” [1] “GSCM is the process of incorporating environmental concerns into supply chain management including product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing ...
Supply-chain sustainability is the management of environmental, social and economic impacts and the encouragement of good governance practices, throughout the lifecycles of goods and services. [1] There is a growing need for integrating sustainable choices into supply-chain management.
It has come to be understood that a company is only as sustainable as the start of its supply chain, bringing about the need for sustainable sourcing. [3] Sustainable sourcing refers to the inclusion of social, environmental, and economic criteria in the sourcing process.
[14]: 2 Supply chain management was then further defined as the integration of supply chain activities through improved supply chain relationships to achieve a competitive advantage. [12] In the late 1990s, "supply chain management" (SCM) rose to prominence, and operations managers began to use it in their titles with increasing regularity.
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' (CSCMP) Supply Chain Process Standards present an outline or framework for managing processes which are typically found to be involved in performing supply chain related activities, and a set of standardised activities described in two levels of maturity - the "suggested minimum" and "best practice" for each process.
Integrated Chain Management (ICM), also known as Integral Chain Management, is an approach for the reduction of environmental impact of product chains. Such a product chain exists out of an extraction phase, a production phase, a use phase and a waste phase. The ultimate goal of ICM is a reduction of environmental load over the whole chain.
It is a process reference model for supply-chain management, extending "from the supplier's supplier to the customer's customer". [21] It includes delivery and order fulfillment performance, production flexibility, warranty and returns processing costs, inventory and asset turns, and other factors in evaluating the overall effective performance ...
Enable – Processes being associated with the management of the supply chain. These processes include management of business rules, performance, data, resources, facilities, contracts, supply chain network management, managing regulatory compliance, and risk management. The process is implemented in Version 11.0, released in December 2012.