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“GSCM can be achieved by considering environmental issues at the purchasing, product design and development, production, transportation, packaging, storage, disposal, and end of product life cycle management stages.” [3] “GSCM is the integration of environmental concerns in the inter-organizational practices of supply chain management” [4]
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.
Supply chain activities mainly impact the environment in two ways: natural resource depletion and/or production of harmful pollutants. These impacts have further implications for the natural world, leading to biodiversity loss , habitat destruction , soil degradation , and disruption of natural cycles. [ 9 ]
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.
[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.
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 ...
He's also prioritizing the Siren Craft System, a series of equipment and process improvements introduced under ousted CEO Laxman Narasimhan in September 2022. Narasimhan had planned for 10% of US ...
Sustainable Materials Management is a broad approach that overlaps and supplements many programs and concepts being adopted by governments and business around the world including zero waste, green chemistry, eco-labeling, sustainable supply-chain management, lean manufacturing, green procurement, the US EPA’s Design for the Environment ...