Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify unsustainable aspects of operations and supply chains, and suggest ways to improve them.
• Suggest sustainable operations and supply chains models.
• Assess the sustainability of operations and supply chains.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Manage time and tasks effectively.
• Communicate in writing (ideas, knowledge, arguments or proposals) with brevity and clarity.
• Demonstrate the ability to persuade, convince and argue effectively.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The Circular Economy implementation within sustainable operations and supply chains.
• The need for sustainability, ethics and responsibility in operations and supply chains.
• What the barriers and challenges are towards integrating sustainability in operations and supply chains.
• What sustainability entails and the triple-bottom-line of environmental, social and economic dimensions.

●Introduction to sustainability in operations and supply chains

●Circular Economy and supply chain management

●Open and closed loop supply chains

●Sustainable global value chains and their local effects on developing countries

●Sustainable Development and corporate social responsibility

●Renewable energy

●Sustainable sourcing

●Ethics and responsibility

●Eco-design/Sustainable innovation

●Life-Cycle Analysis

●Sustainable operations and supply chain models

●Sustainable business models

Teaching and learning methods

Learning activities include:

●Lectures

●Case studies

●Use of on-line materials

●Individual assignment reflecting on the lessons learned

●In-class case study / problem solving activities

●In-class presentations

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

Saberi, S., Kouhizadeh, M., Sarkis, J., & Shen, L. (2019). Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management. International Journal of Production Research, 57(7), pp. 2117-2135.

Barbosa-Póvoa, A. P., da Silva, C., & Carvalho, A. (2018). Opportunities and challenges in sustainable supply chain: An operations research perspective. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(2), pp. 399-431.

Hsu, C. C., Tan, K. C., & Zailani, S. H. M. (2016). Strategic orientations, sustainable supply chain initiatives, and reverse logistics. International journal of operations & production management. , 36 (1), pp. 86-110.

Frei, R., Jack, L., & Krzyzaniak, S. A. (2020). Sustainable reverse supply chains and circular economy in multichannel retail returns. Business Strategy and the Environment.

Dubey, R., Gunasekaran, A., Papadopoulos, T., Childe, S. J., Shibin, K. T., & Wamba, S. F. (2017). Sustainable supply chain management: framework and further research directions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 142, pp. 1119-1130.

Formentini, M., & Taticchi, P. (2016). Corporate sustainability approaches and governance mechanisms in sustainable supply chain management. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, pp. 1920-1933.

De Angelis, R., Howard, M., & Miemczyk, J. (2018). Supply chain management and the circular economy: towards the circular supply chain. Production Planning & Control, 29(6), pp. 425-437.

Kusi-Sarpong, S., Gupta, H., & Sarkis, J. (2019). A supply chain sustainability innovation framework and evaluation methodology. International Journal of Production Research, 57(7), pp. 1990-2008.

Genovese, A., Acquaye, A. A., Figueroa, A., & Koh, S. L. (2017). Sustainable supply chain management and the transition towards a circular economy: Evidence and some applications.. Omega, 66, pp. 344-357.

Textbooks

Millstone, C. (2017). Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet. Routledge.

Weetman, C. (2016). A circular economy handbook for business and supply chains: Repair, remake, redesign, rethink. Kogan Page Publishers.

Yakovleva, N., Frei, R., & Murthy, S. R., Eds. (2019). Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable Supply Chains in the Post-global Economy. Springer, Cham.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.