Ebook: Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management

4.3.4 Vendor Control and Contract Management -- 4.4 Ethics in procurement -- Chapter 5 Sustainability and production -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The design of the production system -- 5.3 Leveraging Lean Management for a Sustainable Production -- 5.3.1 Overview of Environmental and Social 'Wastes' -- 5.3.2 The Lean Principles and Toolkit -- 5.4 Leveraging Six-Sigma for a Sustainable Production -- 5.4.1 Six Sigma and Statistical Process Control -- 5.5 Servitisation and leasing -- Chapter 6 Sustainability and logistics, physical distribution and packaging -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Social and environmental aspects in logistics and physical distribution -- 6.3 Physical distribution and sustainability: A reference framework -- 6.3.1 Carbon Footprint Auditing -- 6.3.2 Eliminating Transportation Waste -- 6.4 Warehouse management and sustainability -- 6.5 Sustainable packaging -- Chapter 7 Reverse Logistics Management and Closed-Loop Supply Chain -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Reverse flows and sustainability -- 7.3 Reverse Logistics and Closed-loop Supply Chain: Not only a semantic difference -- 7.4 Closed-loop Supply Chain management: Integrating forward and backward flows -- 7.5 Sustainable Supply Chains: Why, Who, What and How? -- 7.5.1 Why? Drivers and Reasons in Sustainable Supply Chains -- 7.5.2 Who? Main players in Sustainable Supply Chains -- 7.5.3 What? Products, Materials and Packaging in Sustainable Supply Chains -- 7.5.4 How? Recovery Options in Sustainable Supply Chains -- 7.6 Value creation through recovery options -- Chapter 8 Measuring sustainability -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Measuring sustainability in manufacturing companies -- 8.3 Sustainable development measurement -- 8.3.1 The measurement of GDP: Limits -- 8.3.2 Human Development Index -- 8.4 Sustainability measurement in companies -- 8.4.1 Relevant Profiles -- 8.4.2 Reference models;Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Sustainability and future trends -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Sustainability before Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management -- 1.3 The impact of climate change -- 1.4 Mega-trends and sustainability -- 1.4.1 Demographic Evolution -- 1.4.2 Urbanisation -- 1.4.3 Emerging New Consumers -- 1.4.4 Smart Technologies and the Digital Factory -- 1.5 Mega-trends, sustainability and supply chain management -- 1.6 Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility -- 1.7 The development of sustainable objectives from the Triple Bottom Line perspective -- 1.8 Sustainability: The reasons why -- Chapter 2 Sustainable operations and supply chain management as competitive factors -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing and Service Industries -- 2.3 Operations, Supply Chain Management and Competitive Advantage -- 2.3.1 Strategic Alignment -- 2.3.2 Operations, Supply Chain Management and Decision Making -- 2.3.3 Operations and Supply Chain Performance Management and Control -- 2.4 Performance and Trade-Off Management -- 2.5 Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management: a Reference Framework -- Chapter 3 Sustainability and new product design -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Environmental Orientation path -- 3.3 Life cycle and Cradle-to-Cradle approaches -- 3.4 Eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness -- 3.5 The Design for approaches -- 3.5.1 Design for Environment -- 3.5.2 DFE Principles -- Chapter 4 Sustainability and procurement -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The role of procurement in delivering sustainable solutions -- 4.3 Implementing a sustainable procurement strategy -- 4.3.1 Indentifying Needs and Defining Specifications -- 4.3.2 Vendor pre-selection -- 4.3.3 Tender Evaluation and Vendor Selection