Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Simple Review and

Research Direction

Nurhayati Sembiring

Industrial Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, 20155 Indonesia.

Keywords: SSCM, Sustainability, Supply Chain

Abstract: Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is management that integrates economic and non-economic

problems in the supply chain. They found it difficult to adopt high influence in other practices to adopt

SSCM. These practices are effectively identified and applied, enabling many other practices; the company

can then follow all required SSCM practices.

1 BACKGROUND

Oliver and Weber found definitions for management

systems and Supply Chain (SC) is a part of it (Oliver

& Webber, 1982). Since then, SC has been

developed at the research and industry level, and SC

is now a basic system in any organization (Barbosa-

Póvoa, da Silva, & Carvalho, 2018). Sustainable

supply chains have caused changes to activities that

have strong relation with environment. (Acquaye et

al., 2018).

SSCM providing positive advantage in the

world of business. (Ansari & Kant, 2017). Finally

sustainability management (SM) is influence to the

continuity of business.. (Bastas & Liyanage, 2018).

Supply chain management has become a

strategic tool for all companies seeking the positive

grow of economic, service and time (Eskandarpour,

Dejax, Miemczyk, & Péton, 2015). The real system

shows the fact that there is a growing concern to

social and environmental performance of company’s

partner.. (Genovese, Acquaye, Figueroa, & Koh,

2017).

2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Sustainable supply chain

Sustainable supply chains are related to planning and

controlling each of the flow of capital, information

and also materials. And each of that management

process must be have good link with social,

economic, and environmental. (Dubey et al., 2017).

2.2. First Section

According to the growth of government, customer

and social pressure and also their expectations, there

must be a continuous improvement in manufacturing

industry (Esfahbodi, Zhang, & Watson, 2016).

2.3. Thinking about Sustainability in

Supply Chain Research

CSR is an implication of the sustainability

responsibilities. The economic and responsibilities

view is become important. (Castillo, Mollenkopf,

Bell, & Bozdogan, 2018).

2.4. Sustainable Supplier Selection

The social penetration responsibility in Traditional

supplier selection literature is very limited, and the

role of suppliers to ensure a sustainable supply chain

has recently been the focus of research. Drawing

from the latest literature, the selection of sustainable

suppliers characterizes the extent to which

purchasing social and environmental dition to

economic criteria when choosing new suppliers

(Davis-Sramek, Thomas, & Fugate, 2018).

Sembiring, N.

Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Simple Review and Research Direction.

DOI: 10.5220/0008505800640067

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2.5. Characterization of the supply

chain

SC managemnet are divided into downstream and

upstream. If the system use multi-tiered SC, there

will be different boundaries. (Sauer & Seuring,

2018)(Su et al., 2016) (Lin, Tseng, & Pai, 2018).

2.6. Analyze of Some Papers on SSCM

In Table 1 could be seen some previous SSCM

studies.

Tabel 1: Some studies about SSCM

Paper by

Contain

Factor

Place

Ali Bastas, Kapila

Liyanage

 Collective investigations.

 Integration of social,

economy and,

environmental

 Integration and management of

Supply chain

United kingdom

Vincent E. Castillo,

et.al.

 Supply chain has

interdependence

 This research effort

develops a more

sustainable supply chain.

 Sustainability thought in supply

chain research

 Supply chain integrity

 Exploratory analysis of the SCI

construct

United States

Beth davis-Sramek,

Rodney W.

Thomas, and Brian

S. Fugate

 Empirical revision in

examining SSCM

 The manager's

perspective trade-off

 Sustainable supplier selection

 Behavioral decision theory

United States

Vivek Roy

 Adoption,

implementation,

expansion, development

and results of supply

chain management

(SCM).

 Sustainable supply chain

management

 Conceptual

 Comprehensive

 Research themes

 SLR

India

Adolf Acquaye,

et.al.

 Perspective of supply

chains

 The Supply chain related

with life cycle of

industry.

 Operational Research in

Environment and Climate Change

 Sustainable Performance

Measurement

 Industry Lifecycle Thingking

 BRICS

Kuo-Ping Lin,

Ming-Lang Tseng

 Using estimation to

Fuzzy Trial Making Trial

(AFDEMATEL.)

 Approximate fuzzy arithmetic and

DEMATEL

Taiwan

Deepak

Mathivathanan, et.

al.

 The best method for

applying SSCM.

 Sustainable supply chain

management

 Automotive industries

 Emerging economies

 Sustainable supply chain

management

India

Rameshwar Dubey,

et. al

 Research by using

deductive empirical.

 Sustainable supply chain

 Total interpretive structural

modeling

 MICMAC

United Kingdom

Andrea Genovese,

et. al.

 Emerging of Sustainable

and Green supply chain

management for best

practices.

 Environmental sustainability

 Decision support

 Product lifecycle analysis

 Circular economy

Chu-Mei Su, et. al.

 Applying Gray is related

 Grey theory

Taiwan

Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Simple Review and Research Direction

with preference ratings.

 DEMATEL

 Sustainable supply chain

management

 Supplier selection

3 METHODS

The next section are the methods for this study.

(Ansari & Kant, 2017):

Step 1. Material collection:

Gathering is analyzing, limiting, and defining

the unit of analysis. stage various activities can be

carried out that can produce a data that can help

research.

Step 2. Descriptive analysis:

Description of analysis, namely access to

information collected from theoretical analysis.

Step 3. Category selection:

Selection of topics to get a method of

understanding SSCM.

Step 4. Material evaluation:

Material analysis according to the problem and

interpreting the evaluate paper samples according to

the selected categories and dimensions.

Figure 1: Methodology of Research

4 RESEARCH DIRECTION

The aim of developing SSCM is to create an

awareness of the importance of sustainable supply

chains (Roy, Schoenherr, & Charan, 2018). Stage

identify and classify is summarized by involving

personal opinion. (Mathivathanan, Kannan, & Haq,

2018).

Identify existing SSCM practices through

literature surveys

Questionnaire to identify the advantages and

influence between SSCM practices

Management

Perspective

Societal Perspective

Government

Perspective

Prominent SSCM practices and the relationship

between SSCM practices

Comparison of results is obtained in three

different perspectives and a combined

perspective

Applying the SSCM practice analysis to three

different perspectives and a combined

perspective

Figure 2: The research framework proposed to identify

prominent SSCM practices

5 CONCLUSIONS

The Sustainable Supply Chain has become the basis

for any company to achieve sustainable goals.

SSCM is a new paradigm for company’s success.

Paper’s categories that analyzed is organized using

years (time), authors, variables, country that research

was done. The opportunities of next research could

be specified clearly.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author like to give big appreciate to students

who have helped the author to edit the template for

this paper.

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