Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains: An Introduction (Hassan Qudrat-Ullah)....Pages 3-13 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 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 A Meta-Analysis of Sustainable Supplier Selection Approaches (Felix Tuczek, Tina Wakolbinger)....Pages 55-79 Green Supply Chain Management, Green Innovations, and Green Practices (Umar Burki)....Pages 81-109 The Road Toward a Circular Economy: The Role of Modular Product Designs in Supply Chains (Thomas Nowak, Fuminori Toyasaki, Tina Wakolbinger)....Pages 111-133 Policy Design for Sustainable Supply Chain Through Training (Ijaz Yusuf, Tashfeen M. Azhar)....Pages 135-177 The Application of System Dynamics for a Sustainable Procurement Operation (Sherif Barrad, Raul Valverde, Stéphane Gagnon)....Pages 179-196 Front Matter ....Pages 197-197 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 Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods (Lize Duminy, Stefan N. Grosser)....Pages 223-262 Designing a Sustainable Tourism Supply Chain: A Case Study from Asia (Winai Wongsurawat, Vivek Shrestha)....Pages 263-288 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 Risk Assessment of the Timber Supply Chain in Southern Ontario Using Agent-Based Simulation (Marcin Lewandowski, Ali Asgary)....Pages 317-332 Front Matter ....Pages 333-333 Finale: Sustainable Supply Chain Continuum (Hassan Qudrat-Ullah)....Pages 335-342 Correction to: Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods (Lize Duminy, Stefan N. Grosser)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 343-353