ICT as “Knowledge Management” for Assessing Sustainable Consumption and Production in Supply Chains

Knowledge Management in Supply Chains

Fuzzy revenue efficiency in sustainable supply chains

The performance assessment of supply chains including sustainability dimensions of economic, environmental and social is a significant aspect for managers and decision makers. Furthermore, imprecise data are presented in many real world applications. Therefore, the current paper proposes an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the revenue efficiency of sustainable supply...

Impeding Knowledge Management in Supply Chains

For many years following the Industrial Revolution there was a period of stability where knowledge of processes could be assimilated at a slow pace by new generations of workers: one ploughed the fields, set the seeds, and in due course gathered in the crops. Father taught son, and so life rolled on. This is not so nowadays, capital equipment is much larger and more expensive so it has to be ke...

Collaborative supply chain management: The most promising practice for building efficient and sustainable supply chains

The Internet and its related services create an interactive working environment for users. Through the Internet, effective collaboration becomes possible whenever, wherever, and with whomever. Recently, there has been a significant growth in e-Business transactional information sharing and collaboration especially in supply chain management. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of co...

Developing sustainable food supply chains.

This paper reviews the opportunities available for food businesses to encourage consumers to eat healthier and more nutritious diets, to invest in more sustainable manufacturing and distribution systems and to develop procurement systems based on more sustainable forms of agriculture. The important factors in developing more sustainable supply chains are identified as the type of supply chain i...