Post on 23-Feb-2016
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Building sustainable global supply chains
Dr. Stephen BrammerProfessor of Strategy and Associate Dean for Research, Warwick
Business SchoolCo-authors: Drs. Stefan Hoejmose and Andrew Millington, University of
Bath
Four key questions1. What are the main issues, drivers and motivators
identified in the research?
2. What does the data suggest most firms are doing to manage these issues? What risks does such an approach entail?
3. What practices characterize cutting-edge approaches to sustainable global supply chains?
4. What conditions contribute to the attainment to sustainable global supply chains?
Data analyzed in our research
The most prominent issues
Sources of pressure
Motivations for managing global supply chains sustainably
Sustainable global supply chains: Common “baseline” practices
Shortcomings of baseline practices
• Un-negotiated expectations lack legitimacy
• Codes of conduct are static and unresponsive
• Third-party certification is costly• Monitoring and auditing
undermine trust
Sustainable global supply chains: Best practices
Conditions supporting improved supply chain practice
Conclusions• Managing a global supply chain sustainably is a
complex and multifaceted task
• The most common practices identified in our research provide a useful first step, but suffer from some inherent limitations
• More ambitious “best practices” address these limitations but require more integrated consideration of the relationship between a firm’s strategy, operations, and partnerships