Overview
- Includes examples from actual industrial cases
- Reflects key issues in today’s competitive supply chains
- Addresses possible solutions using established theories and models
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Management of Sustainability/Industry 4.0 on Supply Chains
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Applications of SSC in Specific Sectors
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About this book
Recent advances in sustainability, supply chains and technologies have brought promising potential for the management of sustainable global and local supply chains. While most of the current literature seem to consider developments in the field of sustainable supply chains and in the field of Industry 4.0 as two distinct entities, this book attempts to explore the synergy in bringing these two distinct fields together.
The book features chapters on management of sustainability and industry 4.0 on supply chains as a whole, with several case studies on issues related to the application of sustainable supply chains in specific application sectors. They employ mathematical modeling and statistical analyses, as well as descriptive qualitative studies. They cover a range of application areas including multiple sectors (restaurant, manufacturing,logistics, furniture, food and insurance), domains (supply chains, logistics, marketing, and reverse logistics) and multiple country contexts (UK and India). The potential links between sustainability and the recent technological innovations from Industry 4.0 have been explored in detail.
The book offers a valuable tool for managerial decision-making on the current practice and future potential on the use of Industry 4.0 tools for sustainable supply chains to facilitate competitive advantage with case studies in various industry sectors. In addition, some intriguing mathematical models will appeal to students and researchers interested in modeling the logistics process and the application of evolutionary game theory for integrating the social and economic aspects of sustainable supply chains. Some of these supply chain issues have been addressed in a previous book by the Editors.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Ramakrishnan Ramanathanis a Professor of Operations Management at the University of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton, UK. In the past, he has worked and taught in a number of countries, including the UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Oman and India. His research interests include operations management, supply chains, environmental sustainability, data envelopment analysis and the analytic hierarchy process. Ram has successfully completed more than 30 research projects across the world. His current research projects as Principal Investigator include: (i) the REAMIT project funded by the Interreg North West Europe aimed at reducing food waste in the agribusiness supply chain (nearly 5 million Euro) and (ii) the TAF project funded by the Newton Fund for improving productivity of artisanal fishing in Brazil (nearly £100,000). In addition, Ram is on the editorial boards of several journals and in the technical/advisory committees of several international conferences in his field. He is a member of ESRC Peer ReviewCollege in the UK and reviews applications submitted to the Newton Fund. He has so far produced five books, more than 130 research publications in journals and more than 170 conference presentations. His research articles have appeared in many prestigious internationally refereed journals including Omega, Journal of Business Ethics, Tourism Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Transport Policy, and, Transportation Research
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Supply Chains: Strategies, Issues, and Models
Editors: Usha Ramanathan, Ramakrishnan Ramanathan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48876-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48875-8Published: 18 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48878-9Published: 18 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48876-5Published: 17 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 311
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Innovation/Technology Management