Investigating the Influential Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Using Two Asian Countries as Examples

Kuo, Tsai‐Chi; Chen, Gary Yu-Hsin; Hsiao, Yu-Lin; Dang, Hanh; Chiu, Ming‐Chuan; Hsu, Chia‐Wei

doi:10.1002/sd.1678

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“…Medical products and even their packaging are highly standardized and we cannot easily change them.”The quotes highlight why humanitarian specificities, donors, and materials and waste are ranked as the lowest causes. Prioritizing humanitarian specificities such as uncertainty of demand and timing (the subcauses) as the area with the least improvement potential is congruent with the findings of Kuo et al () expressing that although uncertainty is a major influential factor in sustainable supply chains, it is also the most difficult one to address. The next step was selecting one of the most important causes and exploring greening solutions to address it.…”

Section: Application Of the Proposed Mixed‐methods Researchsupporting

confidence: 81%

On the role of regional hubs in the environmental sustainability of humanitarian supply chains

Zarei

Carrasco‐Gallego

Ronchi

2019

Sustainable Development

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In spite of strong commitment of humanitarian and development communities with the protection of our planet, expressed through the Sustainable Development Goals in the Agenda 2030, environmental sustainability still remains an overlooked aspect in humanitarian supply chains (HSCs). Using a collaborative mixed‐methods research with an international humanitarian organization, this paper sheds light on the causes of unsustainable operations in HSCs and investigates the impact of regional hubs on the environmental sustainability. First, an in‐depth focus group was conducted involving the organization's employees and the research team to identify the main causes contributing to unsustainable HSC in the organization. Five categories of causes were identified, namely, supply chain configuration (SCC), transportation, donors, material and waste, and humanitarian specificities. Then, based on respondents' prioritization, SCC was selected as the most important category. Carbon footprinting for three SCC scenarios was conducted: the current SCC and two conceptual SCC with two hubs in East and West Africa with different replenishment windows. The results reveal that the SCCs with hubs outperform the current SCC in terms of carbon footprint. Finally, the challenges of implementing the conceptual SCCs and possible solutions to address them were discussed through follow‐up individual interviews.

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Section: Application Of the Proposed Mixed‐methods Researchsupporting

confidence: 81%

On the role of regional hubs in the environmental sustainability of humanitarian supply chains

Zarei

Carrasco‐Gallego

Ronchi

2019

Sustainable Development

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“…However, despite government encouragement and support, the current implementation of sustainable supply chain management in enterprises has not achieved the expected results [9], mainly because implementing sustainable supply chain management requires an awareness process which, in the short term, will increase costs. Moreover, an important hinderance is that the impact of sustainable supply chain management is more and more complicated [10].…”

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Empirical Research on Influencing Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management—Evidence from Beijing, China

Zhang

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The traditional development mode for social and economic progress has resulted in crises and challenges; therefore, various countries have begun to actively explore sustainable development. As a developing country, China has outstanding environmental problems. However, there are not many empirical studies on the influencing factors of sustainable supply chain in domestic enterprises. Therefore, according to the manufacturing industry in China, a hypothesis model of influencing factors of sustainable supply chain management is set up. The sustainable supply chain practice is based on three dimensions: economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, and social sustainability. The influencing factors of sustainable supply chain include internal management cognition, industry pressure, consumer pressure, and government participation. A structural equation model was used to analyze the questionnaire data of 167 enterprises in Beijing, China. The results show that internal management cognition and government participation has a direct effect on the sustainable supply chain management practice, and internal management cognition has a strong positive influence. Consumer pressure and industry pressure have a small positive impact on internal management cognition, while the effect of government participation on industry pressure is very significant.

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“…The quotes above highlight why humanitarian specificities, donors, and materials and waste are ranked as the lowest causes. Prioritizing humanitarian specificities such as uncertainty of demand and timing (the sub-causes) as the area with the least improvement potential is congruent with the findings of Kuo et al (2017) expressing that while uncertainty is a major influential factor in sustainable supply chains, it is also the most difficult one to address. The next step was selecting one of the most important causes and exploring greening solutions to address it.…”

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Convening green to humanitarian logistics scene: a collaborative research approach for embedding environmental sustainability in humanitarian logistics

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Humanitarian supply chains are more expanded and global than ever before. Humanitarian organizations, alongside their development counterparts, work around the clock to satisfy the needs of beneficiaries, whether it is an armed conflict in the Middle East, a refugee crisis in Europe, or an ongoing drought in Africa. Meeting the ever-growing humanitarian needs entails intense logistics operations from procurement, to transportation, warehousing, last-mile distribution, and reverse logistics. These operations contribute to considerable environmental impact. However, environmental sustainability has been overlooked in humanitarian supply chain research hitherto. The objective of this thesis is integrating humanitarian supply chain management with green supply chain management, two streams within the supply chain management literature which have been growing in isolation from one another.The thesis builds upon the contingency theory and proposes a theoretical underpinning to distinguish the peculiarities of humanitarian environment and investigate how such peculiarities impact on the adoption, customization, and development of green practices. An action research methodology was used in collaboration with an international humanitarian organization and two and a half cycles of collaboration were conducted to integrate environmental sustainability into their supply chains.The research reveals four key findings. First, it proposes a greening framework that frames the extant green practices in a suitable form for humanitarian organizations. Second, it unearths the barriers and enablers of greening humanitarian supply chains vis-à-vis intra-organizational management, organizational functions such as procurement, funding environment, as well as other stakeholders such as suppliers, other humanitarian organizations, and country offices. Third, it explores the mechanisms through which humanitarian organizations can deal with or benefit from the identified barriers and enablers viz. i) improving the visibility of headquarters over delegations through increased presence of staff and employing information and communication technologies to track products during lastmile distribution, ii) developing instructions to minimize scavenging during reverse logistics and disposal, iii) promoting cooperation among different implementing partners at each country, and iv) raising flexible funding and donors' awareness about sustainability, inter alia. Fourth, a carbon footprinting conducted within the action research showed that humanitarian supply chain designs with hubs replenished periodically outperforms the design with perpetual replenishment through direct shipments from suppliers to country offices in terms of global warming potential.Moreover, the research offers strong practical contributions by implementing action steps for greening humanitarian supply chains and investigating the success or failure of each step. It also makes methodological contributions to action research by identifying the challenges and opportunities for conduc...

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Investigating the Influential Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Using Two Asian Countries as Examples

Cited by 11 publications

References 56 publications

On the role of regional hubs in the environmental sustainability of humanitarian supply chains

On the role of regional hubs in the environmental sustainability of humanitarian supply chains

Empirical Research on Influencing Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management—Evidence from Beijing, China

Convening green to humanitarian logistics scene: a collaborative research approach for embedding environmental sustainability in humanitarian logistics

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