Performance Measurement System for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Abstract

In recent years the topic of sustainable supply chain has received dramatic attention and become an important research area. These days there are some new challenges which companies should consider them such as climate changes, the negative effect of downturn, face the growing attention of people to ecology. In order to evaluate the sustainability performance measurement system becomes an important tool to assess the sustainability on environmental, social and economy aspect of supply chain management. For making the business case for sustainability issues in supply chain, it is critical to call for effective performance measurement system and metrics development.

Understanding effects of innovative and collaborative approaches on supply chain performance

“…Nonetheless, literature provides a number of supply chain performance measurement methods which can also be used (Torabizadeh, 2014). On the other hand, additional research can be made with the concepts we studied on sustainable supply chain performance (Varsei, 2014 .774…”

The Transition towards Sustainable Supply Chain Management: An Empirical Study

“…This research area has developed during the last decades and can be approached from many different perspectives. Some studies of sustainability implementation in supply chains are focusing on the environmental issues [8], [13], [18]- [21] whereas others have a wider perspective for sustainability covering also social responsibility [8], [22], [23]. A major categorization has been made by the motivations of the implementation whether basing on demand by a more powerful party in the supply chain or driven in collaboration.…”