This book provides a comprehensive methodology, strategic overview and an actionable plan and a tool kit for creating, managing and sustaining a green supply chain. This is achieved by merging economic and green concepts into the application of supply chain thinking to create a blueprint to achieve green supply chains. Based on solid research, and illustrated with case studies the book answers five key questions: What are the tangible and intangible benefits of moving towards green supply chains? What are the costs, both direct and indirect? What influence do we have over our suppliers and our customers that would allow us to jointly work together and move the supply chain towards a green supply chain? Which party has the most influence in our end to end supply chain, and how can we encourage all of them to think green? How will we engage and communicate our progress towards the green supply chain to all of our key stakeholders? On-going work is being conducted to build a comprehensive library of case studies in collaboration with WWF in Geneva. The research carried out to create the book gives a holistic view of the green supply chains through recent decades, traces how businesses and supply chains have always historically moved out of step with each other and creates a map of the future of the green supply chains. It also takes into account the trends, the capabilities, the changing business needs, and geo-political realities and moves towards creating a holistic view of Green Supply Chains and their key elements.
Book Details:
- Author: Stuart Emmett
- ISBN: 9780470662243
- Year Published: 2009
- Pages: 316
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
This book provides a comprehensive methodology, strategic overview and an actionable plan and a tool kit for creating, managing and sustaining a green supply chain. This is achieved by merging economic and green concepts into the application of supply chain thinking to create a blueprint to achieve green supply chains. Based on solid research, and illustrated with case studies the book answers five key questions: What are the tangible and intangible benefits of moving towards green supply chains? What are the costs, both direct and indirect? What influence do we have over our suppliers and our customers that would allow us to jointly work together and move the supply chain towards a green supply chain? Which party has the most influence in our end to end supply chain, and how can we encourage all of them to think green? How will we engage and communicate our progress towards the green supply chain to all of our key stakeholders? On-going work is being conducted to build a comprehensive library of case studies in collaboration with WWF in Geneva. The research carried out to create the book gives a holistic view of the green supply chains through recent decades, traces how businesses and supply chains have always historically moved out of step with each other and creates a map of the future of the green supply chains. It also takes into account the trends, the capabilities, the changing business needs, and geo-political realities and moves towards creating a holistic view of Green Supply Chains and their key elements.
Climate change is now firmly on the agenda of organizations world wide. Potential for Green Supply Chains has long been recognized and acknowledged. However, many reasons have impeded the adoption of green supply chain principals by corporations. One of the reasons has been lack of comprehensive methodology and tool kit to make it happen.
PLATFORM FOR THE BOOK: The authors will drive sales through their work via their organization and consultancy. CONTEMPORARY THINKING: This is the first book to provide a strategic overview of tackle how to create a green supply chain. The book takes the firm view that a move to green is economical it can be achieved comprehensively and systematically. INTERNATIONAL APPEAL: The topic is global. The book will have international appeal, based on research with organizations around the world and interviews with more than 100 executives. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Presents an actionable plan and a tool kit for creating, managing and sustaining a green supply chain, including key elements such as green systems and process mapping.
About the Author
Vivek Sood is the Managing Director of Global Supply Chain Group, a strategy consulting firm specialising in Supply Chain Strategies, headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Prior to co-founding Global Supply Chain Group in January 2000, he was a management consultant with the strategy consulting firm Booz Allen the research backing for this book. Vivek has also written a number of articles and papers that have been published in several journals and magazines as well having spoken at several supply chain conference, forums and workshops in various parts of the world. His website www.globalscgroup.com has more details, including academic and professional qualifications. The organisation is very international in character and has nearly 50 part time/full time staff/contractors. Stuart Emmett has a background in various commercial private sector service industries and has worked up to main board level. Since 1990 has been active in training and development and after being a Director of Training for nine years, then choose to become a freelance independent mentor/coach, trainer and consultant. Trading under the name of Learn and Change Limited, this UK registered company built on Stuarts past operational and strategic UK and Nigerian working experiences and on his particular interest in the people issues of management processes. Stuart currently works all over the UK and on five other continents, principally in Africa and the Middle East, but also in the Far East and North and South America. Additional to undertaking training, he is also involved with one to one coaching / mentoring, consulting, writing, assessing and examining for professional institutes qualifications. This has included being Chief Examiner on the Graduate Diploma of the UKs Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and as an external university examiner for an MSc in Procurement and Logistics. Stuarts website; www.learnandchange.com has more details, inlcuding academic and professional qualifications.