Analysis of Success Factors to Implement Sustainable Supply Chain Management Using Interpretive Structural Modeling Technique: A Real Case Perspective

Abstract

Sustainability draws increased supply chain management (SCM) attention. This article analyzes critical success to the assessment, evaluation, and attainment of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), assessed through critical-success identification and qualitative data analysis. Namely, a literature review selected of 188 articles, published between January 1994 and November 2016, helps identify the most influential success factors. The qualitative data analysis pertains to fifteen such successes, identified in the literature review and through our collaboration with other academic researchers and industrial specialists. Notably, the study's qualitative data analysis, interpretive structural modeling (ISM), unconceals the mutual impact among the most prominent SSCM success factors. The economic benefits and environmental awareness of suppliers are recognized as the most significant success factors, which could allow business enterprises and other organizations to implement a SSCM framework, with intentionality and the sustainability in their business. The article concludes with suggestions for future research directions.

Employees’ opinions on critical success factors and performance criteria in disaster and emergency management

“…Although there have been many studies on Critical Success Factors when we look at the studies conducted in the last decade they are as the following; Zhou et al (2011) CSF in emergency management,5 Cochrane (2012) CSF in transforming pedagogy with mobile learning12, Chen (2012) CSF in emergency management engineering13, CSF in Enterprise Resource Planning applications at small and medium business, Anyanful and Nartey (2015) CSF in the banking sector14, Liu et al (2016) CSF in infrastructure recovery after disaster15, Vaz et al (2016) CSF in emergency management information system16, Zhou et al (2017) CSF in emergency management17, Yang et al (2017) CSF in supply chain management18, Nguyen (2017) CSF in logistics and supply chain management19, Sheikhi et al (2017) CSF in the performance of the drug supply chain20, Hill (2017) CSF to reduce disasters21, Kocak and Diyadin (2018) evaluation of CSF in the transition process of industry to 4.022, Alhamali (2019) CSF in the green supply chain 23…”

Factors Influencing of SSCM Performance of the Indian Insurance Industry

“…Gunasekoran ( 2004) highlighted that SCM has been a vital element of competitive strategy to intensify the organizational profitability and productivity . Mohmood & Mengeke et al (2017) analyzed the critical success factors for the attainment of sustainable supply chain management. Through the ISM, the authors discussed the mutual impact of most prominent success factors for the implementation of SSCM.…”

Designing an interpretative structural model for human resource agility

“…Therefore, systems scientists are the basis for introduction of ISM. The ISM is based on group decision-making, social science, discrete mathematics, and graph theory (Yang et al, 2017).…”