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Ming-lang Tseng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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improving the benefits and costs on Sustainable Supply Chain finance under uncertainty
International Journal of Production Economics, 2019Co-Authors: Ming-lang Tseng, Ming LimAbstract:Abstract Prior studies in Sustainable development have been conducted since its introduction, however, there is evidence in the literature that Sustainable Supply Chain finance is still lacking, in particular, in relation to developing measurements to analyze the benefit and cost attributes. Furthermore, these studies did not also identify an ideal hierarchical structure, which is key for accuracy of decisions making. Hence, this paper contributes to the literature by constructing a set of measurements and analyzing the benefits and costs in the textile industry. In this paper, a fuzzy interpretive structural model was developed to build a hierarchical model, and a fuzzy TODIM was applied to determine the linguistic preferences and identify the benefits and costs. The results obtained show that Sustainable Supply Chain finance improves firms' competitive advantages through multiple attributes, which imply that collaboration value innovation, strategic competitive advantage and financial attributes are the most important aspects for improving firm's performance. The results also indicate that to build a successful Sustainable Supply Chain finance, firms should upgrade the synchronization of financial-related decisions, obtain price and cost information, focus on product and service quality, and ensure the dispersion of dependent and interdepartmental interactions.
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Sustainable Supply Chain management using approximate fuzzy DEMATEL method
Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2018Co-Authors: Kuo-ping Lin, Ming-lang Tseng, Ping-feng PaiAbstract:Abstract This study develops the approximate fuzzy Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (AFDEMATEL) to analyze uncertain influential factors. The approximate fuzzy arithmetic operations under the weakest t-norm (Tω) arithmetic operations to evaluate Sustainable Supply Chain management based on AFDEMATEL. The fuzzy DEMATEL is one of important decision-making method under uncertain environment. The fuzzy DEMATEL had to be developed for clearly display expert’s options with linguistic variables. The fuzzy operations usually adopt α-cut arithmetic in fuzzy DEMATEL. In this research, the fuzzy DEMATEL technology is substituted with the AFDEMATEL technology. In the Sustainable Supply Chain management example, the AFDEMATEL is employed to find fuzzy cause and effect relationships among criteria. Particular note should be made of the following: [1] the fuzzy DEMATEL with α-cut arithmetic model cannot exactly handle fuzzy cause and effect relationships under uncertain environment, and the fuzziness accumulation phenomenon of the α-cut arithmetic may influence final fuzzy cause and effect relationships; and [2] the approximate fuzzy arithmetic operations gives a justifiable fuzziness spread to analyze fuzzy cause and effect relationships. In the case of selection of cans suppliers, the AFDEMATEL examines the influential factors. Proposed method provides justifiable fuzzy cause and effect relationships with approximate fuzzy arithmetic and can analyze across quadrants phenomenon under uncertain environment, since decision-makers usually want to accurately estimate uncertain influential factors.
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knowledge management in Sustainable Supply Chain management improving performance through an interpretive structural modelling approach
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017Co-Authors: Ming K Lim, Ming-lang Tseng, Kim Hua Tan, Tat Dat BuiAbstract:Sustainable Supply Chain management is one vital element in achieving competitive advantage in business management and knowledge management is seen to be one key enabler. However, in previous studies the interrelationships between knowledge management and Sustainable Supply Chain management are still under-explored. This study proposes a set of measures and interpretive structural modelling methods to identify the driving and dependence powers in Sustainable Supply Chain management within the context of knowledge management, so as to improve the performance of firms from the textile industry in Vietnam. The research result indicated that learning organisation, information/knowledge sharing, joint knowledge creation, information technology and knowledge storage are amongst the highest driving and dependence powers. These attributes are deemed to be most-effective to enhance the performance of firms. To further enhance the value of this research, theoretical and managerial implications are also discussed in this study.
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improving Sustainable Supply Chain management using a novel hierarchical grey dematel approach
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016Co-Authors: Derjuinn Horng, Ming-lang Tseng, Anthony S F Chiu, Huiping ChenAbstract:Abstract Sustainable Supply Chain management has been studied in the past. However, the previous studies lack proper justification for a multi-criteria decision-making structure of the hierarchical interrelationships in incomplete information. To fill this gap, this study proposes a hierarchical grey decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory method to identify and analyze criteria and alternatives in incomplete information. Traditionally, the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory method does not address a hierarchical structure and involves incomplete information within its analytical method. However, the grey theory compensates for incomplete information. This study's purpose is to apply the proposed hierarchical structure to identify aspects of and criteria for supplier prioritization. This includes an original set of criteria for structuring the following: aspects as a Sustainable plan, communities for sustainability, Sustainable operational process control and Sustainable certification and growth. The results present the recycle/reuse/reduce option as a tool to increase the material savings percentage, which is the top criterion for supplier selection. This study concluded that the hierarchical analytical method provides a strong basis for future academic and practitioner research.
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assessing the competitive priorities within Sustainable Supply Chain management under uncertainty
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016Co-Authors: Yuanhsu Lin, Ming-lang TsengAbstract:Abstract Sustainable Supply Chain management (SSCM) is driving firms to extend their social, economic and environmental efforts across their Supply Chain. Competitive priorities are a strategic integration in SSCM and thus to firm performance. However, the literature has not thoroughly examined the hierarchical structure among the competitive priorities and SSCM under uncertainty. This study adapts a hierarchical structure and linguistic preferences to identify the competitive priorities under SSCM in electronic focal manufacturing firms in Taiwan. This study formed an expert team with industrial experience and proposed to apply interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers to represent the linguistic preferences and used multi-criteria decision making to assess the hierarchical structure in identifying the ranking of competitive priorities and the tradeoffs. Specifically, the result found that innovation is a top priority for all SSCM aspects. Likewise, businesses should be aware of suppliers, customers and dependability aspects. The implications and conclusions are discussed.
Stefan Schaltegger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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20 years of performance measurement in Sustainable Supply Chain management what has been achieved
Supply Chain Management, 2015Co-Authors: Philip Beskejanssen, Matthew Johnson, Stefan SchalteggerAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the academic literature on sustainability performance measurement for Sustainable Supply Chain management (SSCM) published over the past 20 years. The development and current state of instruments, concepts and systems to measure and manage sustainability performance are examined and research gaps are identified. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic literature review is conducted spanning two decades of publications in peer-reviewed academic journals. The publications are analyzed with regard to frequency and bibliometrical metrics and research content. Findings – The research examines the development of the field over 20 years, which has witnessed a steep rise in related publications only for the past five years, indicating a late interest in the area compared to other sustainability topics. Social performance measures entered the discussion particularly late, whereas economic and environmental measurement almost exclusively dominated t...
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strategies in Sustainable Supply Chain management an empirical investigation of large german companies
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2013Co-Authors: Dorli Harms, Erik G. Hansen, Stefan SchalteggerAbstract:Companies which manage global Supply Chains face a high level of complexity with a large number of suppliers in diverse socio-economic contexts and growing expectations by customers and standardization schemes to control social and environmental aspects. In the context of Sustainable development to effectively manage supplier relationships has therefore gained particular attention in Sustainable Supply Chain management (SSCM). This paper investigates two SSCM strategic approaches in Germany’s largest stock companies with regard to supplier management. Supplier evaluation and selection adopts a risk-oriented strategic perspective whereas supplier development represents a business opportunity-oriented approach managing supplier Chains for Sustainable products. The survey-based analysis reveals that large German large stock companies mainly implement risk-oriented SSCM strategies.
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strategies in Sustainable Supply Chain management an empirical investigation of large german companies
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2013Co-Authors: Dorli Harms, Erik G. Hansen, Stefan SchalteggerAbstract:Companies which manage global Supply Chains face a high level of complexity with a large number of suppliers in diverse socio-economic contexts and growing expectations of customers and standardization schemes to control social and environmental aspects. In the context of Sustainable development, the effective management of supplier relationships has therefore attracted particular attention in Sustainable Supply Chain management (SSCM). This paper investigates two SSCM strategic approaches in Germany's largest stock companies with regard to supplier management. Supplier evaluation and selection adopts a risk-oriented strategic perspective whereas supplier development represents a business-opportunity-oriented approach to managing supplier Chains for Sustainable products. The survey-based analysis reveals that large German stock companies mainly implement risk-oriented SSCM strategies. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Ming Lim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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improving the benefits and costs on Sustainable Supply Chain finance under uncertainty
International Journal of Production Economics, 2019Co-Authors: Ming-lang Tseng, Ming LimAbstract:Abstract Prior studies in Sustainable development have been conducted since its introduction, however, there is evidence in the literature that Sustainable Supply Chain finance is still lacking, in particular, in relation to developing measurements to analyze the benefit and cost attributes. Furthermore, these studies did not also identify an ideal hierarchical structure, which is key for accuracy of decisions making. Hence, this paper contributes to the literature by constructing a set of measurements and analyzing the benefits and costs in the textile industry. In this paper, a fuzzy interpretive structural model was developed to build a hierarchical model, and a fuzzy TODIM was applied to determine the linguistic preferences and identify the benefits and costs. The results obtained show that Sustainable Supply Chain finance improves firms' competitive advantages through multiple attributes, which imply that collaboration value innovation, strategic competitive advantage and financial attributes are the most important aspects for improving firm's performance. The results also indicate that to build a successful Sustainable Supply Chain finance, firms should upgrade the synchronization of financial-related decisions, obtain price and cost information, focus on product and service quality, and ensure the dispersion of dependent and interdepartmental interactions.
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Sustainable Supply Chain modeling and analysis past debate present problems and future challenges
Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2019Co-Authors: Ming Lim, Pezhman Ghadimi, Chao WangAbstract:Abstract For the last two decades, the topic of Sustainable Supply Chains has evoked considerable interest from academics and practitioners. Within this context, Resources, Conservation and Recycling (RCR) and its two predecessors (Resources and Conservation, and Conservation and Recycling) have provided a platform for the exchange of technological, economic, institutional and policy aspects to help societies transition toward sustainability. The current article analyses the published research works in the RCR literature within the context of Sustainable Supply Chain modeling by employing a content analysis literature review technique. Using the body of available literature in RCR, the articles on Sustainable Supply Chain are analyzed in terms of the following: (1) publication per year, (2) top-cited papers across time, (3) most productive and influential authors, institutions and countries (4) Supply Chain related topical themes, (5) research methodologies applied, (6) illustration types and (7) industries addressed. The analysis revealed that the call for incorporating sustainability (i.e., economic, social, and environmental pillars) into Supply Chain operations has increased in recent years in RCR publications. Finally, the comprehensive findings and interpretations are presented, as well as the primary current trends, future challenges, directions and opportunities.
Martin Muller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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social Sustainable Supply Chain management in the textile and apparel industry a literature review
Sustainability, 2017Co-Authors: Deniz Koksal, Martin Muller, Jochen Strahle, Matthias FreiseAbstract:So far, a vast amount of studies on sustainability in Supply Chain management have been conducted by academics over the last decade. Nevertheless, socially related aspects are still neglected in the related discussion. The primary motivation of the present literature review has arisen from this shortcoming, thus the key purpose of this study is to enrich the discussion by providing a state-of-the-art, focusing exclusively on social issues in Sustainable Supply Chain management (SSCM) by considering the textile/apparel sector as the field of application. The authors conduct a literature review, including content analysis which covers 45 articles published in English peer-reviewed journals, and proposes a comprehensive map which integrates the latest findings on socially related practices in the textile/apparel industry with the dominant conceptualization in order to reveal potential research areas in the field. The results show an ongoing lack of investigation regarding the social dimension of the triple bottom line in SSCM. Findings indicate that a company’s internal orientation is the main assisting factor in Sustainable Supply Chain management practices. Further, supplier collaboration and assessment can be interpreted as an offer for suppliers deriving from stakeholders and a focal company’s management of social risk. Nevertheless, suppliers do also face or even create huge barriers in improving their social performance. This calls for more empirical research and qualitative or quantitative survey methods, especially at the supplier level located in developing countries.
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from a literature review to a conceptual framework for Sustainable Supply Chain management
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2008Co-Authors: Stefan Seuring, Martin MullerAbstract:Abstract Academic and corporate interest in Sustainable Supply Chain management has risen considerably in recent years. This can be seen by the number of papers published and in particular by journal special issues. To establish the field further, the purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it offers a literature review on Sustainable Supply Chain management taking 191 papers published from 1994 to 2007 into account. Second, it offers a conceptual framework to summarize the research in this field comprising three parts. As starting point related triggers are identified. This allows putting forward two distinct strategies: (1) supplier management for risks and performance, and (2) Supply Chain management for Sustainable products. It is evident that research is still dominated by green/environmental issues. Social aspects and also the integration of the three dimensions of sustainability are still rare. Both practitioners in companies and academics might find the review useful, as it outlines major lines of research in the field. Further, it discusses specific features of Sustainable Supply Chains as well as limitations of existing research; this should stimulate further research.
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Core issues in Sustainable Supply Chain management - A Delphi study
Business Strategy and the Environment, 2008Co-Authors: Stefan Seuring, Martin MullerAbstract:Sustainable Supply Chain management has emerged as a growing topic, receiving increas- ing interest in the sustainability and Supply Chain management area. So far, the fi eld is dominated by either case or survey based research. Few attempts have been made to take a broader look at the overarching issues, which form core topics of Sustainable Supply Chain management. This paper presents the fi ndings from a Delphi study where experts were asked to contribute their opinion. The Delphi study allows an aggregation of these opinions and extracts underlying topics in a structured manner. Four major topics were identifi ed, which are (1) pressures and incentives for Sustainable Supply Chain management, (2) iden- tifying and measuring impacts on Sustainable Supply Chain management, (3) supplier management (particularly addressing issues at the supplier–buyer interface) and (4) Supply Chain management (dealing with issues across all companies involved in the Supply Chain). The research presented contributes to substantiating and consolidating the fi eld of sustain- able Supply Chain management. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
Stefan Seuring - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable Supply Chain management for minerals
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017Co-Authors: Philipp C Sauer, Stefan SeuringAbstract:As inputs to virtually all Supply Chains (SCs), mineral resources drive the modern economy. However, despite the substantial sustainability impact of the initial stages of mineral SCs, these remain largely outside the scope of Sustainable Supply Chain management (SSCM). This paper aims to map the intersection of the literature on sustainability in mineral SCs and SSCM, thus bridging the current gap, and to propose research directions for future work. The paper presents a structured content-analysis based literature review of 67 peer-reviewed, English-language journal papers listed in the Web of Science database. These have been identified via a keyword search for SC-, mineral- and mining-specific terms. The content analysis is based on the work of Beske and Seuring (2014), which is abductively complemented with mineral SC-specific practices to build a comprehensive SSCM for minerals framework. Furthermore a contingency analysis is conducted to reveal association patterns between the used constructs. As main contribution, we propose the addition of a Government interventions category as well as mineral-specific practices to the Risk and Pro-activity management categories of the framework. These are identified as essential practices for improving the sustainability in mineral SCs. Moreover, a cascaded mineral SC design is proposed adopting literature based propositions. It complements the traditional downstream buyer-supplier concept in SSCM by adding a second buyer-supplier relationship led by an upstream focal firm for enhanced sustainability management. This design integrates mineral extraction and refinement into a comprehensive SSCM approach and proposes practices for its realization. The resulting approach thus offers the potential for supreme sustainability performance in mineral SCs. Finally, research directions for future studies on this issue are formulated.
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Sustainable Supply Chain management and inter organizational resources a literature review
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2009Co-Authors: Stefan Gold, Stefan Seuring, Philip BeskeAbstract:On the basis of a content analysis, this paper explores the role of Sustainable Supply Chain management as a catalyst of generating valuable inter-organizational resources and thus possible sustained inter-firm competitive advantage through collaboration on environmental and social issues. Drawing on the resource-based view and its extension, the relational view, this paper highlights that partner-focused Supply management capabilities evolve to corporate core competences as competition shifts from an inter-firm to an inter-Supply-Chain level. The ‘collaborative paradigm’ in Supply Chain management regards strategic collaboration as a crucial source of competitive advantage. Collaboration is even more essential when Supply Chains aim at ensuring simultaneously economic, environmental and social performance on a product's total life-cycle basis. Inter-firm resources and capabilities emerging from Supply-Chain-wide collaboration are prone to become sources of sustained inter-firm competitive advantage, since they are socially complex, causally ambiguous and historically grown and hence particularly difficult to imitate by competitors. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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from a literature review to a conceptual framework for Sustainable Supply Chain management
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2008Co-Authors: Stefan Seuring, Martin MullerAbstract:Abstract Academic and corporate interest in Sustainable Supply Chain management has risen considerably in recent years. This can be seen by the number of papers published and in particular by journal special issues. To establish the field further, the purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it offers a literature review on Sustainable Supply Chain management taking 191 papers published from 1994 to 2007 into account. Second, it offers a conceptual framework to summarize the research in this field comprising three parts. As starting point related triggers are identified. This allows putting forward two distinct strategies: (1) supplier management for risks and performance, and (2) Supply Chain management for Sustainable products. It is evident that research is still dominated by green/environmental issues. Social aspects and also the integration of the three dimensions of sustainability are still rare. Both practitioners in companies and academics might find the review useful, as it outlines major lines of research in the field. Further, it discusses specific features of Sustainable Supply Chains as well as limitations of existing research; this should stimulate further research.
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Core issues in Sustainable Supply Chain management - A Delphi study
Business Strategy and the Environment, 2008Co-Authors: Stefan Seuring, Martin MullerAbstract:Sustainable Supply Chain management has emerged as a growing topic, receiving increas- ing interest in the sustainability and Supply Chain management area. So far, the fi eld is dominated by either case or survey based research. Few attempts have been made to take a broader look at the overarching issues, which form core topics of Sustainable Supply Chain management. This paper presents the fi ndings from a Delphi study where experts were asked to contribute their opinion. The Delphi study allows an aggregation of these opinions and extracts underlying topics in a structured manner. Four major topics were identifi ed, which are (1) pressures and incentives for Sustainable Supply Chain management, (2) iden- tifying and measuring impacts on Sustainable Supply Chain management, (3) supplier management (particularly addressing issues at the supplier–buyer interface) and (4) Supply Chain management (dealing with issues across all companies involved in the Supply Chain). The research presented contributes to substantiating and consolidating the fi eld of sustain- able Supply Chain management. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
