Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Sustainable supply chain management examines how companies can redesign the flow of materials, products, and information across their networks to reduce environmental harm while remaining economically viable. A growing focus is the circular economy—shifting away from the traditional take-make-dispose model toward systems where products are remanufactured, reused, or returned to raw material streams, requiring firms to rethink both their logistics and their underlying business models. Researchers are working to understand how environmental management practices and resource efficiency goals can be embedded into supply chain network design from the outset, rather than added as an afterthought. Open questions include how to fairly allocate costs and benefits across supply chain partners with competing incentives, and how to scale circular practices beyond pilot programs into industry-wide standards.

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Circular EconomySustainable Supply Chain ManagementGreen PracticesSupply Chain Network DesignRemanufacturingBusiness Model Innovation