Date: 2018
Type: Article
How to achieve supply chain sustainability efficiently? : taming the triple bottom line split business cycle
Sustainability, 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2, Art. 397
KLUMPP, Matthias, How to achieve supply chain sustainability efficiently? : taming the triple bottom line split business cycle, Sustainability, 2018, Vol. 10, No. 2, Art. 397
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For sustainable supply chains, specific concepts regarding how to efficiently improve sustainability are needed in a global comprehensive triple bottom line (TBL) approach, especially for forwarders as central actors in supply chain design. Such specific advice is provided by reporting empirical DEA Malmquist index findings from seven large European forwarders regarding a TBL sustainability analysis from 2006 to 2016. A major obstacle in improving sustainability consists in the newly discovered fact that with the business cycle, the three TBL areas of economic, ecologic and social objectives for logistics are undergoing different up- and down-ward trends, making it very hard to improve all three simultaneously. Additional factors are identified in the characteristics of size and government influence regarding the sustainability efficiency of forwarders. This has important impacts on supply chain design like e.g., with selection criteria.
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Published: 03 February 2018; This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License 4.0
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59922
Full-text via DOI: 10.3390/su10020397
ISSN: 2071-1050
Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
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