A Review of Sustainable Supply Chain Initiatives

Abstract

There are three dimensions of sustainability: Financial, Social and Economic. The companies who are working in area of sustainability must include these facets. The performance of any company can’t be measured just on the basis of financial performance but also we need to focus on the social and environmental performance. The organisations now need to take initiatives in the era of sustainability which include all three components of 3BL.This article is the review article and provides the literature review of sustainable supply chain management and also drivers of sustainability are also introduced. This study elaborate the literature on sustainable strategies in relation to environmental and social concerns. This study introduces a process view of Sustainable Supply Chain Management and identifies 10 sustainable supply chain processes (SSCPs) from literature. Further, a tabular view is proposed considering significance of various SSCPs and their sustainability objectives with the issues faced by them. This study introduces an approach to enhance sustainability of supply chain basis on theoretical lenses of stakeholder theory and resourced based view.