What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Supply Chain Resilience and Corporate Sustainability Through Emerging IT Capability

Global epidemics and international conflicts disrupt supply chain operations. Many enterprises employ emerging information technology (IT) to reduce supply chain vulnerability and enhance supply chain resilience. Technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain facilitate more robust supply chain operations, such as remanufacturing, just-in-time production, and automated workflow, leading to corporate sustainability along economic, environmental, and social dimensions. From a dynamic capability perspective, this article conceptualizes emerging IT capability and investigates its role in helping enterprises survive supply chain disruptions and prosper in the long run. A research model depicts the relationships among environmental uncertainty, supply chain vulnerability vigilance, emerging IT capability, supply chain resilience, and corporate sustainability. A partial least square analysis on survey observations collected from more than 200 enterprises in China that are highly susceptible to supply chain disruptions provides supporting evidence to most research hypotheses. The results show that high vigilance to potential supply chain disruptions will motivate enterprises to develop emerging IT capability, which will enhance supply chain resilience as well as economic, environmental, and social performances. The mediating role of emerging IT capability suggests a viable path for enterprises to adapt to the increasingly turbulent environment and improve supply chain resilience and corporate sustainability

Performance Evaluation of CSR in Supply Chains

Given a lack of studies that have explored the integration of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) management within supply chain operations reference (SCOR), the purpose of this study is to identify the discrepancies in how CSR management (CSRM) be incorporated into SCOR, including issues with the hierarchical representation of CSRM processes, metrics, best practices and skills. Therefore, this research aims to establish a performance evaluation framework with application of SCOR model using Fuzzy extended AHP method for evaluating CSR performances in supply chains. These may be potentially helpful for embedding CSRM within other supply chain management processes, visualizing CSR performance metrics in a supply chains performance hierarchy and integrating supply chain management with organisational enterprise CSRM

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation Issues: An Empirical Study in Commercial Banking Industry of Pakistan

In this modern era of digital technology and continuous changing global business environment, firms have no other choice rather persistently improve their capabilities and enhance their competitive advantages. To get this objective, many organizations are now focusing towards adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) frameworks. An ERP system uses different sorts of data preparing abilities and place the accumulated information into a solitary database. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are very complex integrated systems. ERP implementation is a tough, lengthy and expensive procedure for an organization who adopt it and most of time it leads to failure. In developing countries, the success rate of implementing ERP systems is extremely lower than that in western world. Thus, ERP implementation success is treated as dependent variable in this study, it used explanatory and predictive orientations. First, it identified the critical factor from past studies then explain the impact on the ERP implementation success in Pakistan banking sector context. Collected data was analyzed using SPSS. Finally, results and discussions were presented. Keywords: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Manufacturing requirement planning, (MRP), centralized database, Information System, Management commitment

The resource efficiency in sustainable production system: Monitoring consumptions, reducing waste, and reusing them as raw materials

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B2B Supply Chain Risk Measurement Systems: A SCOR Perspective

PurposeGlobalisation, trade barriers, unprecedented health crises and geo-political crises have forced organisations to revisit their performance measurement systems (PMS) to better prepare their supply chain against the risk and improve performance in times of crisis. This study aims to review the supply chain operation reference (SCOR)-based PMS and propose a dynamic SCOR-based PMS for supply chain risk management (SCRM).Design/methodology/approachDue to the need for multi-stakeholder perspectives on SCOR-based PMS for the SCRM, the authors aimed to develop a theory rather than to elaborate upon or test the theory. Hence, the authors adopted an inductive theory-building approach to build research propositions. The authors also gathered 12 semi-structured interviews with knowledgeable managers from B2B international companies.FindingsThe findings of the study highlight the challenges faced by the organisations during the implementation of the SCOR-based performance indicators and the positive impacts they have on decision-making and on the continuous improvement strategy of organisations to tackle supply chain risks and improve performance. The findings suggest that the effects of these indicators are more felt during risk management and risk monitoring stages.Research limitations/implicationsLike any other study, this study has some rules, and, thus, the authors caution the readers that they must interpret the findings of the research considering these limitations. The study is based on semi-structured qualitative interviews. The interviews were conducted with 12 knowledgeable managers from France; thus, the insights drawn from the study cannot be generalised to other settings. Furthermore, the samples represent something other than small and medium enterprises. In the future, the samples from small and medium firms can offer a nuanced understanding of the performance indicators for SCRM.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the few studies which has attempted to revisit the SCOR-based PMS in the B2B supply chain for risk management. The study’s findings help expand the SCOR-based PMS literature and offer numerous insights to the management and consultants facing challenges in SCOR implementation

Incorporating Product Development Tools in Environmental Management Systems (EMS): A New Way for Sustainability Management

In recent years’ business has been viewed increasingly as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Incorporating EMS tools to business can be initiative to solve this problem and raise the environmental awareness in the corporate and manufacturing sector. This management tool established suitably as an administrative tool to address continuous process in total management initiatives in the respective sectors. Even it is well known that EMS renders a robust contribution to the global environmental management, but some studies criticize the ultimate efforts. Their argument is that the EMS can only achieve partial management goals of the organization rather than entire target. So, it’s not yet conceived as a key toolkit to achieve sustainability in industrial scale. This study aims to configure the vision of EMS through some innovative product development tools that could be integrate into the existing EMS platform, more specifically in the ‘planning’ division among all five segments of the EMS. Two approaches through ‘Template for Sustainable Product Development (TSPD) and Strategic Life Cycle Management (SLCM)’ incorporating the backcasting from sustainability principles, have been used to scrutinize the product development system in an EMS user company. By using TSPD the current reality and envisioned future are find out through the three analytical points of view of a product, e.g. market needs, concepts and extended enterprise. On the other hand SLCM has integrated into TSPD all the way from raw materials to the ending of a product based on all sustainability principles. TSPD and SLCM could be used as strategic planning tool in the conventional EMS to guide the product development for achieving sustainability. Finally, this study reveals that the integration process of sustainability could be parallel to existing environmental management systems where some product development tools are supportive catalyst to develop the concept

Managing and measuring sustainability performance of supply chains

Sustainable development from an industrial perspective has extended beyond organisational boundaries to incorporate a supply chain approach. This paper provides a framework which can assist focal companies in development of sustainable supply chains. The literature related to sustainable supply chain evaluation is reviewed incorporating concepts from four organisational theories including the resource based, institutional, stakeholder and social network perspectives to illustrate key drivers and enablers of sustainability initiatives in the supply chain. A conceptual multidimensional framework is then developed which can serve as a tool for research scholars and supply chain practitioners in identifying and assessing various economic, environmental and social performance indicators

Sustainability Best Practices : Benchmarking Results of the SUSTIS Project

This study has been conducted as part of the Sustainability and Transparency in Shipbuilding Networks (SUSTIS) project in order to benchmark sustainability practices extant in industries that share similar characteristics with shipbuilding industry. The information provided by this study is intended to be used during the mapping of sustainability arguments and eventual implementation of sustainability within the targeted company

The Impact of State-of-the-Art Supply Chain Management Practices on Operational Performance

This study will investigate the impact of optimal supply chain practices on the operational performance of companies. To achieve its objectives, the study used a descriptive analytical method drawing on a desktop survey of the relevant literature on supply chain management and its impact on operational performance. The study analysed a number of research studies in the field of supply chains over the period 2010-2019.The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is: the significant potential effects of supply chain management in improving the operational performance of enterprises. In light of the findings of the study, a number of recommendations are made: that organizations adopt a more strategic approach to supply chain management based on establishing strong, long-term relationships with suppliers, and customers, effective communications, so raising the standards and quality of sustainable business performance, and strengthening the connections between the three elements of the supply chain  along with greater  attention to the practices connected to  relationships with customers