Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Casebook: Applications in SCM

Part III: Sustainability Throughout the Supply Chain

Increasingly, we know that companies which practice appropriate collaboration, integration, and communication along the entire supply chain tend to be among the leaders in their respective industries. Although it is important to get your own house in order, it is important to consider and include supply chain members when planning and implementing sustainability strategies. It’s mighty difficult to become an environmentally conscious company, or to be financially or socially sustainable all by yourself. To enact social, financial, and environmental sustainability strategies it takes leadership to recognize and implement changes that bridge the gaps between intracompany silos and between companies ...