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Sustainability Delivered: Designing Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains
Author(s): Madeleine Pullman (author) & Margaret Sauter (author) (Author)
- Publisher: Business Expert Press
- Publication Date: 30 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 165 pages
- ISBN-10: 1606493183
- ISBN-13: 9781606493182
Book Description
If you are a supply chain manager, an executive, an entrepreneur, or a stakeholder in a sustainable business, this book will help you develop the awareness and skills needed to support sustainable supply chain management in your firm. The authors introduce the many ways that social and environmental responsibility can be integrated into supply chain management, from sustainable product and process design to programs and techniques that support product end-of-life management. The book begins with a discussion of sustainability and business strategy. It then explores product and process design, sustainable purchasing and logistics, and product end-of-life management topics. The authors include real-world examples and cases from some of the world’s leading companies in sustainable supply chain management. The examples range from small local companies to large multinational players to give a broad range of ideas to the reader. With case examples, workshops, and step-by-step instructions on how to create a sustainable supply chain, Sustainability Delivered is the most practical and usable book on the market that will help you and other business leaders to authentically pursue and deliver on sustainability ideals
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About the Author
Madeleine Pullman, Willamette Industries Professor of Supply Chain Management, Portland State University, Oregon, USA.
