Sustainable operations and supply chain management /

Belvedere, Valeria, 1973-

Sustainable operations and supply chain management / Valeria Belvedere, Alberto Grando. - Hoboken : Wiley, 2017. - xii, 228 pages ; 24 cm. - Wiley series in operations research and management science .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Sustainability and future trends -- Sustainable operations and supply chain management as competitive factors -- Sustainability and new product design -- Sustainability and procurement -- Sustainability and production -- Sustainability and logistics, physical distribution and packaging -- Reverse logistics management and closed loop supply chain -- Measuring sustainability -- Index -- .

Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management addresses the most relevant topics of operations and supply chain management from the perspective of sustainability. The main focus is to provide a step by step guide for managerial decisions made along the product life-cycle, following a path made up of the following steps: product design, sourcing, manufacturing, packaging and physical distribution, reverses logistics and recovery. [Provided by Amazon.com]

9781119284956 (cloth)

2016036070


Sustainable development.
Business logistics.

HC 79.E5 / .B419 2017

658.5