A Simple Review and Research Direction of Sustainable Supply

Chain Management

Nurhayati Sembiring

Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara

Jalan Almamater Kampus USU, Medan, Indonesia 20155

Keywords: Sustainable Supply Chain Management, SSCM.

Abstract: Sustainability and field of supply chain management is an interesting topic. This paper shows some paper issued

from 2009 to 2011 in the Sustainable Supply Chain Management area. An analysis of some cases are discussed

and presented. Some theories and methodologies are reviewed. After that step, simple conclusions are made.

1 INTRODUCTION

Providers are required to supply communities with

the required results, parts, materials, and services in

successful way to help preserve an aggressive profit.

Nowadays, this become growing high as proceed

industry, and have relationship with environment.

Controlling provider can bring a common three

launched operation, choosing, assessing, and then

further expanding these providers (Bai, Sarkis, &

Wei, 2010).

Increasing significance of SSCM is known well to

firms. Some reason for this such as: market-pressure,

globalization; improving cost; etc.

Supply chain management is influenced by new

information technologies and the fast growing

consumer in the whole markets (Qian, 2011).

With deep analyzed of some sustainable supply

chain management (SSCM)’s paper that published

from year of 2009-2011, with the purpose of

recognizing progressions, possible agreement in

discoveries and methods across researches, and

ranges, new vision could be achieved (Carter &

Easton, 2011).

2 LITERATURE REVIEW

Supply chain design has wider progress. It’s not

enough if the supplier using ordinary designs. (Bai et

al., 2010).

Supply chain management is related with logistic

systems and transportation. (Qian, 2011).

This paper describe some good ideas of

sustainable supply chain management.

Section 2 shows how the procedure of review this

paper. Section 3 show what is the achievement of this

paper. From section 4 we could know sustainable

supply chain management research.

Table 1 is a review of some paper that related to

SSCM from 2009-2011.

3 METHODS

Starting with research in current state, some paper

were studied. (Winter & Knemeyer, 2013) Figure 1

make us clear with the used methodology.

Step 1 – choosing period of paper publication

Several studies in the Period between 2009 and 2011

have been chosen as the main references. The

selection of this period of time is considered to have

sufficiently represented thinking that is a developing

science.

Step 2 – choosing journal

Some important area and disciplines are chosen such

as: Corporate Social Responsibility and

Environmental Management, Int. J. Product Lifecycle

Management, Sustainable Supply Chain

Management, International Journal of Physical

Distribution & Logistics Management selected as

references. These journals contain disciplines

Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

Step 3 – choosing article

The specific characteristic for influential paper to be

included in the analysis is the clear relationship of the

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

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content of the article to the framework of the

previously defined text.

Step 4 – analysis

The next step is to study and examine selected articles

to find out how research has developed over time.

This analysis need input and specifications.

Figure 1: Methodology of Research.

Table 1: Reviews from Previous Paper

Time

Paper by

Contains

Model and framework

Place

2009

(Badurdeen et al.)

 Total base life cycle method,

3R’s of reduce, reuse and

recycle to 6R’s that involves

recover, redesign and

remanufacture

 The SCOR model

 The GSCF framework

 PLM and SSCM

U.S.

2009

(Krause, Vachon,

& Klassen)

 Cutting price

 Dynamic and good.

 Strategic , Noncritical,

Bottleneck and

Leverage items

Canada

2009

(Stock & Boyer,

2009)

 Achieve better activities;

benefits; and materials.

 Focus to the theory, and

research hypotheses testing

 A simple and good

methodology

U.S.

2010

(Gold, Seuring, &

Beske)

 Wider level achievement of

business behaviour

 The model that applied is

collaboration

 Environmental care

 The supply process

must green

Germany

2010

(Michelsen & Fet)

 Creative and always doing

better

 The performance of

the supply chains

Norway

2010

(Bai et al.)

 Having standard and device for

assessment

 Database of suppliers

exists

 Alternative suppliers

China

2010

(Gold et al.)

 Consist to analyse the

sustainable supply chain

management

 Supply strategy

 Focus to Customer

 High management

 Technology

Germany

2010

(Nagurney &

Nagurney)

 Investigate capacites of

operational costs

 Controlling plants,

distribution centres

and the movement of

product’s link

U.S.

2010

(Ramudhin,

Chaabane, &

Paquet)

 considere the market

 Supply chain managers

concentrate of supply chains

duty

 Number of units of

product shipped

 Number of units of

product manufactured

 Binary variable equals

Canada

2011

(Qian, Carter &

Easton, Paulraj)

 Focus to cost management and

the supply chain relationship

both social and environmental

fields

 Monetary and

Physical EMA

 Occupying strategy

Australia

2011

(Lee, Winkler)

 supply chain management of

automobile

 economic and environmental

goals

 Carbon footprint

 Companies

 Employees

Australia,

Austria

2011

(Wolf)

 Cost around Sustainable

supply chain integration

 Sample firms

Germany

Choosing

period of paper

publication

Choosing

journal

Choosing

article

Analysis

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4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In this part, a near choice of using traditional and

sustainable SCM is showed. Choosing between

traditional SCM or SSCM are according the problem

and the objective of the company. The decision is

based on the government regulation, costumer

pressure and the benefit that want to achieved.

5 CONCLUSIONS

According to all the paper that reviewed, there are

two type research, the first is case study and the

second, content review. Collect existing theories to

obtain a first intuition into the occurrence considered

underlines the needs inside the case study to expand

a theoretical.

These analyses produce the next major perception

are forces from ruling figures, consumers and

investors are part of SSCM, growing the provider

production can be reflected on a significance

impartial for firms applied supply chain. Corporate

risk management, social view of sustainability must

be another main attention.

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