Sustainability And The Supply Chain

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Understanding the Supply Chain
Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics
Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business
Network Design in the Supply Chain
Designing Global Supply Chain Networks
Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain
Coordination in a Supply Chain
Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
Determining the Optimal Level of Product Availability
Transportation in a Supply Chain
Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
Sustainability and the Supply Chain

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A focus on sustainability allows a supply chain to better serve more environmentally conscious customers while often improving supply chain performance.

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Walmart started its focus on sustainability as a defensive move given the beating it was taking from environmental activists.

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Customers have usually backed up words about the importance of sustainability with a willingness to pay more for sustainable products.

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Hardin (1968) described the tragedy of the commons as a dilemma arising when the common good does not align perfectly with the good of individual entities.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that has been assessing global warming since 1990, has written that even though most of the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has come from the United States and Western Europe, it is poorer countries that are closer to the equator that are likely to pay the biggest price.

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In reality, there are no actions in a supply chain that improve both sustainability and supply chain surplus.

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An example of a relative measure of emission output is pounds of CO? per gallon of diesel fuel.

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The social pillar measures a firm's ability to address issues that are important for its workforce, customers, and society.

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A firm's new sustainability improvement initiative is best begun by focusing on resource reduction activities.

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For most firms, the extent of direct emissions is typically only a small fraction of the extent of indirect emissions in the supply chain.

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Facilities often offer the best opportunity to simultaneously improve the environmental and financial performance through innovation.

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Most supply chain design innovations that lower transportation costs paradoxically tend to increase fuel consumption and emissions.

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There is greater environmental impact in the extended supply chain than there is within the main plant for most manufacturers.

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Simple awareness of what your own electricity consumption is usually reduces a consumer's electricity use by between 10% and 15%.

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Surveys in sustainable farming have revealed that the typical consumer is willing to pay 25% more for sustainable fare.

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The primary reason for the general lack of design for remanufacturing is that remanufacturing is more expensive for a manufacturer.

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In general, the reverse logistics function for a manufacturer is more expensive to operate on a per unit basis than the forward logistics function that sends the products to market.

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If garbage collection services were billed based on the weight of refuse collected, most people would find a way to discard less and recycle more.

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A carbon tax system is computed by multiplying the tax rate by the carbon emissions.

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Under a cap-and-trade system, a firm that emits more than its share of carbon can buy allowances from a firm that emits less than its share.

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