Operations research for sustainability assessment of products: A review

Thies, Christian; Kieckhäfer, Karsten; Spengler, Thomas S.; Sodhi, Manbir

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.039

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“…Finally, it is necessary to highlight that LCA is a common approach in the literature dealing with product sustainability. Nevertheless, LCA is not as appropriate a tool to qualify, evaluate, and monitor food products and their suppliers as the MCDM methods are, as MCDM methods facilitate decision making in companies at the operational, tactical, and strategic level [1].…”

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“…Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a common approach in the scientific literature dealing with product sustainability evaluation. Nevertheless, LCA is not an appropriate tool to support decision making in Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) [1]. The Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach is suitable to aggregate different dimensions of sustainability and provides a wide range of methods, which allow us to tackle a wide range of issues and support decision making [2].…”

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Quantifying the Sustainability of Products and Suppliers in Food Distribution Companies

2019

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Supplier evaluation is a relevant task of supply chain management where multicriteria methods make great contributions to manufacturing industries. This is not the case in food distribution companies, which have a key role in providing safe and affordable food to society. The purpose of this research is to measure the sustainability of products and suppliers in food distribution companies through a multiple criteria approach. Firstly, the system proposed provides indicators to qualify products and assess the food quality, using the compensatory Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) model. Secondly, these indicators are included in supplier evaluation, which takes economic, environmental, and social criteria into account. MAUT and Preference Ranking Organisation Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE), a non-compensatory method, are used for supplier evaluation. This approach has been validated for fresh food in a supermarket chain, mainly using historical data. Partial indicators, such as food safety scores, together with global indicators of suppliers, inform the most appropriate decisions and the most appropriate relations between companies and providers. Poor performance in food safety can lead to the disqualification of some suppliers. MAUT is good for qualifying products and is easy to apply at the operational level in logistic platforms, while PROMETHEE is more suitable for supplier segmentation, as it helps to identify supplier strengths and weaknesses.

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Quantifying the Sustainability of Products and Suppliers in Food Distribution Companies

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“…Recognizing the responsibilities business schools have in conducting research and educating future business leaders, many scholars have reviewed different aspects of sustainability and sustainable development. For example, strategic management scholars have examined the research in corporate social responsibility [10]; in behavioral economics, economists have examined if behavioral nudges can lead to green choices [11]; marketing scholars have reviewed the findings on eco-friendly product development [12] and ethical consumption behaviors [13]; operations management focuses on supply chain management [14], smart technologies in manufacturing [15], supply chain collaboration [16], circular economy [17], sustainable transportation systems [18], and sustainability performance evaluation [19]; the human resources discipline focuses on the role of human resources management [20]; and entrepreneurship scholars have examined topics such as social entrepreneurship [21]. Some reviews are interdisciplinary due to the nature of the sustainability-related issues investigated, such as resilience [22], internet use and individual well-being [23], and social and sustainable innovations [24].…”

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Visualizing Sustainability Research in Business and Management (1990–2019) and Emerging Topics: A Large-Scale Bibliometric Analysis

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Wei

2019

Sustainability

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While researchers from many disciplines are increasingly interested in studying issues related to sustainability, few studies have presented a holistic view of sustainability from the perspectives of business and management. This bibliometric study quantitatively analyzed a big data set of 30 years of sustainability research (1990–2019), consisting of 37,322 publications and 1,199,398 cited references, visualizing major topics, dynamic evolution, and emerging development. The decade-by-decade in-depth analysis shows a clear shift from a nearly exclusive focus on economic growth and consumption to all three pillars of sustainability, i.e., economic growth, social development, and environmental protection. Highlighting the differences between United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the popular research topics from academia, our analysis uncovers research gaps and suggests future research directions for sustainability researchers and practitioners.

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“…Generally speaking, the sustainability of products can be evaluated from two perspectives: the perspective of life cycle and the perspective of the triple bottom line. Life cycle emphasizes product's total impact "from cradle to grave", while the triple bottom line stresses the integrated impact in social, economic, and environmental aspects [16]. e methods which combine the two perspectives are proved to be more effective.…”

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Study on Evaluating the Sustainability of Innovative Products

Geng

Xing

Zao-jie

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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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In the process of product innovations, it is necessary to evaluate the sustainability of innovative products in order to meet the demands of sustainable development. So, the calculation process for evaluating the sustainability of innovative products is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the performances of the innovative products in social, economic, and environmental aspects are calculated based on the concepts proposed in this paper, including social matching degree, economic feasible degree, and environmental improving rate. Then, the vector-cosine method in the three-dimensional space is proposed to calculate the sustainability integrated in the three aspects, which regards innovative products as the vectors. Both the size and direction of the vectors are considered to calculate the sustainability. Finally, a case study of the cloud rail made by BYD Company in China is provided to illustrate the validity of the proposed calculation process.

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Operations research for sustainability assessment of products: A review

Cited by 119 publications

References 189 publications

Quantifying the Sustainability of Products and Suppliers in Food Distribution Companies

Quantifying the Sustainability of Products and Suppliers in Food Distribution Companies

Visualizing Sustainability Research in Business and Management (1990–2019) and Emerging Topics: A Large-Scale Bibliometric Analysis

Study on Evaluating the Sustainability of Innovative Products

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