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Optimising Sustainable Supply Chains: A Summarised View of Current and Future Perspectives

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Optimization and Decision Support Systems for Supply Chains

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Sustainable supply chain (SSC) research is recognised as being an emerging field where both academics and industry communities have an important role to play. At the organizations level, companies should not only be managed towards a profitability goal but also their contribution towards a sustainable society needs to be part of their decisions. For academic’s sustainable supply chains although being an area that has been the focus of several studies is still far from being consensual. On the optimization of supply chains different perspectives have been adopted but much further has to be done. Along this chapter the concept of sustainable supply chains and some of the important publications in the area are analysed. A particular focus is given to the construction of tools based on optimization that may help the decision process in such systems while improving the efficiency and responsiveness of SSC. The chapter concludes with a recap of the published work while identifying key aspects that should be pursued so as to build optimized sustainable supply chains.

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    Ana Paula Barbosa-Póvoa

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  3. Instd’Organització i Control de Sist.Ind, Dept. of Business Management Instd’Organització i Control de Sist.Ind, Barcelona, Spain

    João Luís de Miranda

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Barbosa-Póvoa, A.P. (2017). Optimising Sustainable Supply Chains: A Summarised View of Current and Future Perspectives. In: Póvoa, A., Corominas, A., de Miranda, J. (eds) Optimization and Decision Support Systems for Supply Chains. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42421-7_1

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