Outsourcing logistics operations in circular economy towards to sustainable development goals

Zarbakhshnia, Navid; Govindan, Kannan; Kannan, Devika; Goh, Mark

doi:10.1002/bse.3122

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“…There are several literature reviews on CSC (Batista, Bourlakis, Liu, et al, 2018; Batista, Bourlakis, Smart, et al, 2018; Farooque et al, 2019; González‐Sánchez et al, 2020; Lahane et al, 2020; Masi et al, 2017) where the integration of forward and reverse flows is pointed out as crucial for the CE concept (Zarbakhshnia & Goh, 2022). In these studies, other concepts such as sustainable supply chain (Hussain & Malik, 2020) and green supply chain (Nasir et al, 2017) were addressed to contextualize CSC where closing the loop is not the principal focus (Geissdoerfer et al, 2018).…”

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Towards circular economy: A guiding framework for circular supply chain implementation

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Closing the loop for resource efficiency is a well‐known practice in the industry. To concretize the circular economy implementation strategies, closed‐loop thinking requires innovation and adaptation. Circular supply chains (CSCs) are one of the key enablers in closing the loop by design or intention for value recovery and profit maximization. CSC is an emerging area, and the view of CSC where forward and reverse supply chain is seamlessly integrated with the overall aim to achieve system‐wide circularity is missing in the academic debate. By offering a cross‐functional perspective of CSC, this paper presents a CSC guiding framework to structure and understand the underlying complexities and highlight the crucial elements of the CSC implementation. Thus, this framework lays the basis for CSC within the systemic implementation of CE by closing the loop by design or intention. The framework categorizes the CSC into four building blocks, namely, systemic approach, main drivers, levels of decision making, and mechanisms to manage the full loop closure and minimize the inherent uncertainties of a complex system. The building blocks of the framework are synthesized from various streams of supply chain literature and recurring concepts in the circular economy literature. The CSC framework applicability is illustrated using two industrial cases that are transitioning towards the circular economy.

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“…There are several literature reviews on CSC (Batista, Bourlakis, Liu, et al, 2018;Farooque et al, 2019;González-Sánchez et al, 2020;Lahane et al, 2020;Masi et al, 2017) where the integration of forward and reverse flows is pointed out as crucial for the CE concept (Zarbakhshnia & Goh, 2022).…”

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“…(2022) studied how CSC performance may be improved to achieve SDGs. Implementing a CSC with outsourced logistics operations is crucial for sustainable development (Zarbakhshnia et al. , 2023).…”

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“…Nayal et al (2022) studied how CSC performance may be improved to achieve SDGs. Implementing a CSC with outsourced logistics operations is crucial for sustainable development (Zarbakhshnia et al, 2023). With a similar aim of achieving sustainable growth in the European Union, Georgescu et al (2022) investigated the causalities of CE and economic developments and analyzed their dependencies.…”

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Evolving trajectories of circular supply chain domain: a citation path analysis

Varma,

Singh,

Zhang

2023

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PurposeThe enormous amount of waste generated and the scarcity of natural resources worldwide have encouraged societies and industries to adopt the Circular Supply Chain (CSC) concept. With a focus on zero-waste generation, Circular Economy (CE) mimics the ecosystem cycle as an alternative to the traditional linear economic model. This paper aims to investigate the evolution of research themes in this research area, hence, trace the trajectory of development in the field of CSC.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct scientometric analysis using Pajek and VOSviewer software to identify key themes in the Circular Supply Chain Management (CSCM) field. The Citation Path Analysis (CPA), including Main Path and Local Path analysis, has been followed by a critical review of the papers. This paper includes highlighting the interrelationships between the information flows in the topic of study as well as an analysis of keywords co-occurrence.FindingsThe analysis of keywords co-occurrence revealed that the earlier years of research in CSC were more inclined toward value chain, stakeholders and green supply chains, whereas, in recent years, topics like logistics, Industry 4.0 and food supply chain have been more focused upon. Further, the Main Path Analysis (MPA) revealed an evolving trajectory that examines challenges and opportunities in CSC, the economic aspects of implementing CSC, the impact on the firm's revenue growth and collaboration between multiple echelons of a supply chain and Industry 4.0.Research limitations/implicationsThe adoption of scientometrics analysis unveils the hidden flow of information, various themes of research and their interconnections. The development of research trajectories and progressive attention paid to certain topics is also discovered. The research findings could be used by researchers for further theoretical and research development.Originality/valueThis paper traces the path of development in the field of CSC and its emerging trends and provides a thorough understanding of the same. It enables research scholars to conduct an in-depth study in the CSC domain, adding to the body of literature.

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“…The author decided to connect the contemporary conceptions of coordination, centralized demand forecasting and the influence of 3PL in today's market to the considerations about the possibility of transferring the function of coordination (in the area of logistics operation in a distribution network) to the logistics service provider. Nowadays, the usage of outsourcing in the field of logistics is usually aimed at providing environmental sustainability [9] and supporting other companies that are striving towards achieving the sustainable development goals [10]. In the author's opinion, expanding the operations of 3PL in DN will also provide benefits in the field of sustainability.…”

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Logistics Coordination Based on Inventory Management and Transportation Planning by Third-Party Logistics (3PL)

Kmiecik

2022

Sustainability

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Currently, there is still a strong trend in research and in the market connected with the role of 3PL (third-party logistics) companies and the trend of developing and creating coordination in logistics networks. The most important issue for the following paper is the examination of the 3PL enterprise, which is able to create the demand forecasts to gain the functions of logistics coordination in the fields of inventory management and transportation planning. This research paper focuses on showing the demand forecasting tool results for 29 chosen distribution networks (in this paper, the traditional forecasting methods were used based on time series exponential smoothing, ARIMA, machine learning and neural-network-based methods, created in the R programming environment). In the next steps, the forecasting results were compared in the conditions of transportation planning and inventory management (in the conditions of “future” dynamic ABC analysis). The forecasting function supports the inventory management and transportation planning activity of 3PL as a key element of logistics coordination in distribution networks. The proper way to transfer the results of forecasting to an ABC analysis and transportation planning concept is to create a cloud-based system supported by data from the WMS (warehouse management system), while providing the possibility of results visualization by using some BI (business intelligence) solutions or different tools to create managerial information dashboards. Currently, one of the most efficient models connected with logistics coordination is the centralized network with 3PL responsible for planning and executing logistics processes with the creation of additional value. As such, 3PL is able to create a similar forecast for different types of DN and with different aggregations (per SKU or per recipient). It could support coordination in DN from the point of view of inventory management and transportation planning.

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Outsourcing logistics operations in circular economy towards to sustainable development goals

Cited by 48 publications

References 81 publications

Towards circular economy: A guiding framework for circular supply chain implementation

Towards circular economy: A guiding framework for circular supply chain implementation

Evolving trajectories of circular supply chain domain: a citation path analysis

Logistics Coordination Based on Inventory Management and Transportation Planning by Third-Party Logistics (3PL)

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