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Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains

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Editors:
  1. Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

    1. KFUPM, College of Industrial Management, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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  • Provides comprehensive frameworks, models, and integrative solutions for sustainable supply chains
  • Examines innovative and integrative solutions that have proven successful in today’s complex sustainable supply chains
  • Includes methods, techniques, and perspectives for building better sustainable supply chains through creative use of evidence-based decision making
  • Features “managerial insights” describing new and innovative solutions for delivering sustainable performance across all phases of a supply chain

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: An Overview of Sustainable Supply Chains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains: An Introduction

      • Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
      Pages 3-13

  3. The Unique Perspectives for the Sustainable Supply Chains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Determinants of ITF R&D Technology Commercialization in Logistics and Supply Chain Industries: R&D Technologist Perspective

      • Siu Cheung Ho, Kong Bieng Chuah
      Pages 17-53

    3. A Meta-Analysis of Sustainable Supplier Selection Approaches

      • Felix Tuczek, Tina Wakolbinger
      Pages 55-79

    4. Green Supply Chain Management, Green Innovations, and Green Practices

      • Umar Burki
      Pages 81-109

    5. The Road Toward a Circular Economy: The Role of Modular Product Designs in Supply Chains

      • Thomas Nowak, Fuminori Toyasaki, Tina Wakolbinger
      Pages 111-133

    6. Policy Design for Sustainable Supply Chain Through Training

      • Ijaz Yusuf, Tashfeen M. Azhar
      Pages 135-177

    7. The Application of System Dynamics for a Sustainable Procurement Operation

      • Sherif Barrad, Raul Valverde, Stéphane Gagnon
      Pages 179-196

  4. The Innovative Solutions for Industry–Specific Supply Chains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Alternative Energy Policy for Mitigating the Asynchrony of the Wind-Power Industry’s Supply Chain in Brazil

      • Milton M. Herrera, Isaac Dyner, Federico Cosenz
      Pages 199-221

    3. Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods

      • Lize Duminy, Stefan N. Grosser
      Pages 223-262

    4. Designing a Sustainable Tourism Supply Chain: A Case Study from Asia

      • Winai Wongsurawat, Vivek Shrestha
      Pages 263-288

    5. Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management: An Integrated Framework and Practical Perspectives

      • A. D. Nuwan Gunarathne, Deemantha G. Navaratne, Amanda E. Pakianathan, Yasasi T. Perera N.
      Pages 289-315

    6. Risk Assessment of the Timber Supply Chain in Southern Ontario Using Agent-Based Simulation

      • Marcin Lewandowski, Ali Asgary
      Pages 317-332

  5. Finale: Sustainable Supply Chains Continuum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 333-333
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    2. Finale: Sustainable Supply Chain Continuum

      • Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
      Pages 335-342

  6. Correction to: Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods

    • Lize Duminy, Stefan N. Grosser
    Pages E1-E1

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 343-353
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About this book

This book presents the latest tools, techniques, and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains. Given the ever increasing significance of socio-economic and environmental factors, the management of sustainable supply chains has become a complex and dynamic task. Multiple and conflicting objectives of stakeholders including suppliers, manufacturers, service providers, and retailers add to the complexity of decisions that modern day managers of supply chains face. With the unprecedented technological developments and innovations at hand, sustainability can be maximized for all the activities of a supply chain including: service concept and product design, material sourcing and procurement, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product, and end-of-life management of the product. Consequently, the sustainable supply chains' problems require a systematic and integrated approach. Modeling and simulation, in general, as well as system dynamics and agent-based modeling, in particular, have the capabilities to deal with the complexity of sustainable supply chain related problems. This book will appeal to professionals and researchers in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • KFUPM, College of Industrial Management, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

About the editor

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah is a member of the Springer Complexity Board.  He is Professor of Decision Sciences at the School of Administrative Studies at York University, Canada. His research interests include dynamic decision making, system dynamics modeling, and energy planning models.

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