可持续供应链的科学可持续供应链的科学

Dara O'Rourke¹

¹Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 130 Mulford Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA orourke@berkeley.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

|June 7, 2014

概括

全球供应链在产品快速交付方面表现出色,但在衡量环境和社会影响方面落后. 提高可持续性需要更好的数据,决策工具和激励措施来防止有害做法.

科学领域:

供应链管理供应链管理
可持续性科学可持续性科学
运营研究运营研究

背景情况:

技术进步使全球供应链中的近实时需求响应系统成为可能,推动了"快速时尚"和"精益制造"等趋势.
尽管提高了生产效率,但公司对其供应链对环境和社会影响的了解有限.
可持续性测量科学当前的局限性阻碍了对这些影响的评估.

研究的目的:

审查监测,测量和分析供应链可持续性信息的现状.
评估将可持续发展数据转化为决策者可操作的见解的进展情况.
确定推动企业和消费者采用可持续实践的需求.

主要方法:

文献审查和对供应链可持续性管理当前实践的分析.
检查现有的数据翻译和决策支持系统.
讨论衡量和核算供应链影响的经济和系统阻碍因素.

主要成果:

公司有效地管理成本,合规性和风险的供应链,但在可持续发展影响评估方面遇到困难.
可持续性测量科学和数据转化信息系统的局限性阻碍了进步.
对于企业来说,仍然存在阻碍他们充分考虑其供应链的环境和社会成本.

结论:

超越基于成本的管理需要增强数据,决策支持工具和协调的激励措施.
预测和防止不可持续的供应链做法需要一个系统的方法.
进一步的研究和开发对于将可持续性纳入核心供应链决策至关重要.

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