Forward - Green Virtual Enterprises and Their Breeding Environments: Sustainable Manufacturing, Logistics and Consumption

Abstract

Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environments and their Forward-Green Virtual Enterprises, represent a promising paradigm to face the sustainable manufacturing, logistics and consumption challenges towards a Circular Economy. This paper explores the 'build-to-order supply chain management' paradigm and the customers involvement in sustainable supply chains to support the creation and operation of goal-oriented supply networks capable of responding to the two-sided market demands of the Circular Economy by means of sustainable offers by industry and sustainable demand by society.

ICT-based solution approach for collaborative delivery of customised products

“…There is a growing recognition that collaborative business offers significant opportunities for manufacturing companies to create competitive advantages and achieve superior outcomes (Camarinha-Matos, 2009;Romero and Molina, 2014). In today's market place manufacturing companies are reducing their overall supply base and focusing on closer relationships with similar companies in order to achieve business benefits (Panetto et al, 2012;Doloreux and Shearmur, 2012;Ren et al, 2014).…”

Enterprise engineering and management at the crossroads

“…This is the task of the so called 'system 4 and system <!-no-mfc ->5'<!-/no-mfc -> in the VSM, (the strategic level decision centres in the GRAI Grid). For example, an architectural proposal to address the unsustainability of the current industrial system is described as the 'Green Virtual Enterprise' [59][60][61].…”

Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environments Enabling the RESOLVE Framework

“…Green Virtual Enterprises (GVEs) are "short-term alliances of green enterprises, known as GVE partners, which have come together to share their green skills or core-competences and resources in order to better respond and exploit green (circular) business opportunities, and that have been dynamically created within a GVBE". Such GVEs, according to [6] and [7] respectively, must be created as "(a) dynamic forward supply networks (F-GVEs) for delivering green and circular products and/or services to the market, as well as (b) dynamic reverse supply networks (R-GVEs) for recovering such products sold under the GVBE brand (product stewardship) for service provisioning, product recovering or for safe disposal". Both GVE types are created in order to support the collaborative management of sustainable closed (circular) supply networks [4].…”

“…materials, energy and water), also known as 'Circular Economies'. Moreover, GVBEs and GVEs brokers [6] [21] will play a fundamental role in marketing, selling and branding GVEs circular products 2 and services (e.g. products as a service, products based on recycled, biodegradable and/or compostable resources, or products/assets in sharing platforms [22]) towards promoting their acceptance in a growing environmental conscious (green) marketplace.…”