20May 2017

HOW TO MEASURE SUSTAINABILITY OF SUPPLY CHAIN.

  • AbdelmalekEssa?di University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques ,Tangier, Morocco.
  • Research team: Materials, Environment and Sustainable Development.
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Earlier firms mainly based on financial performance to assess their progress. Thenceforth, maturity of supply chain must be evaluated from a more comprehensive performance including, economic, environmental and social dimensions. The purpose of this paper is on consideration of how to use indicators to monitor sustainable development in supply chain. Integrated information on sustainable development of a supply chain is very essential for decision-making since it is very difficult to evaluate the performance of the supply chain on the ground of too many indicators. The objective of this work is to design a mathematical module for obtaining a global composite index (Ig) in order to track integrated information on economic, environmental, social and global performance of the supply chain with time. Normalized indicators were associated into three sustainability sub-indices and finally composed into a global indicator of a supply chain performance. A case study was used to validate this module for one year (2016), interpretation of results is given and the utility of Ig with its relevance is pointed out.

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[A. Haddach, M. Ammari, L. Ben Allal, K. AZAAR and A. Laglaoui. (2017); HOW TO MEASURE SUSTAINABILITY OF SUPPLY CHAIN. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (May). 401-418] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

HADDACH Abdelhay
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques ,Tangier, Morocco.

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4125      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4125

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