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The lean/green supply chain paradigm supports a better performance in terms of economic, environmental and social dimensions. This paper describes a research about the deployment of advanced technologies such as internet of things (IoT), RFID, big data analytics and cloud computing to support the implementation of lean/green supply chain management practices and its influence on the performance. To this end, four lean/green supply chain management practices were studied: using green purchasing guidelines and sourcing from environmental sources, using reusable packaging to materials delivery, just-in-sequence and single sourcing. This paper main contribution is to provide a managerial perspective of how the advanced technologies could support lean/green supply chain practices helping to achieve a better supply chain performance.
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The authors would like to acknowledge financial support from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (grants: UIDB/00667/2020, UID/ECO/04007/2019, UID/CPO/04058/2019).
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Carvalho, H., Pimentel, C., Azevedo, S., Gento, A.M. (2020). Advanced Technologies Supporting the Implementation of Lean/Green Supply Chain Management Practices and Its Influence on the Performance. In: Rossi, M., Rossini, M., Terzi, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th European Lean Educator Conference. ELEC 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41429-0_15
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