SPOTTER: Assessing supply disruption impacts along the supply chain within Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment

Assessing Short-Term Supply Disruption Impacts within Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment─A Case Study of Electric Vehicles

“…SPOTTER is the first approach that is integrated into the LCSA framework and provides a quantitative assessment of supply disruption impacts along the full supply chain in the short term (i.e., < 5 years) and medium term (i.e., 5 to 15 years). The goal of this approach is to identify supply disruption hotspots, i.e., the biggest supply bottlenecks, and overall supply disruption impacts, i.e., aggregated impacts along the supply chain.…”

“…The elements considered for the impact assessment within SPOTTER comprise (i) supply disruption events, i.e., changes of conditions affecting the product system, (ii) case-specific CFs representing cause-effect chains between considered supply disruption events and impacts, and (iii) the specific impact categories comprising these impacts. In their method description, Berr et al have described the events relevant for a short-term or a medium-term assessment as well as the different indicators required for the calculation of the CFs for defined, pertinent impact categories. In addition, Berr and colleagues proposed a practical procedure for the application of the SPOTTER approach, the so-called “SPOTTER implementation procedure”.…”

“…In their method description, Berr et al have described the events relevant for a short-term or a medium-term assessment as well as the different indicators required for the calculation of the CFs for defined, pertinent impact categories. In addition, Berr and colleagues proposed a practical procedure for the application of the SPOTTER approach, the so-called “SPOTTER implementation procedure”. In the Article, this procedure, comprising five steps, is used for the performance of the case study (as shown in sections to ).…”

Crossing the chasm: investigating the relationship between sustainability and resilience in supply chain management

“…To better address the resource sustainability challenges, another effort has been made to develop a comprehensive and holistic LCSA framework by also considering resource aspects related to the risks of raw materials (Helbig et al, 2016). This research endeavour has been formalized into the integration of supply chain sustainability and resilience by including the supply criticality assessment into LCSA (Bach et al, 2016;Berr et al, 2022;Cimprich et al, 2017;Gemechu et al, 2016;Helbig et al, 2016). Indeed, according to the perspective that the "creation of a resilient supply chain… should provide opportunities for increased sustainability and disruption management" (Berr et al, 2022, p.1), the LCSA framework should integrate disruption impacts with environmental impacts to offer a comprehensive perspective able to balance the burdens of different supply chain processes considering both resilience and sustainability (Berr et al, 2022).…”

“…The research highlights that the consideration of socioeconomic and geopolitical aspects of natural resources' risks is relevant for current and future sustainability challenges and hence needs to be an essential part of the LCSA framework (Gemechu et al, 2015). To conclude, the integration of supply disruption impacts within LCSA allows having a comprehensive approach that ensures the creation of integrated sustainable supply processes, which means that along with social, environmental and economic sustainability aspects of raw materials, also criticalities are evaluated and eventually resilience strategies to better anticipate supply risks are adopted (Berr et al, 2022;Gemechu et al, 2015).…”