This book offers students and practitioners a guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations, as well as an understanding of the science of sustainability and the way it affects the supply chain. Examining the subject in an integrated manner, it covers all the key areas, including product design, procurement, cleaner production, freight transport, warehousing and storage, purchasing, supply management, reverse logistics, recycling, strategy and more. It also outlines key principles for creating responsible management of the entire supply chain and delves into the wider issues facing logistics including use of water and energy, population growth and food production.
Written by three leading experts on the subject, Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a comprehensive book that provides research-led applications and over 25 case studies.

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management

Business & Money

Grant, David B.

Trautrims, Alexander

Wong, Chee Yew

Economics

Kogan Page.

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Revised Edition)

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations and the responsible management of the entire supply chain. Based on extensive research by experts in the field, this comprehensive book covers the whole scope of sustainable logistics. The book provides carefully reviewed research-led applications and case studies that have been especially developed for this revised edition with particular attention for use in a teaching context. The mini case studies are highly topical, relating the theoretical concepts to practice and what is actually happening 'on the ground'. 
Examining the subject in an integrated manner, this book examines all the key areas in sustainable logistics and supply chain management, including: sustainable product design and packaging; sustainable purchasing and procurement; cleaner production; environmental impact of freight transport; sustainable warehousing and storage; sustainable supply management; reverse logistics and recycling; supply chain management strategy, and much more. 
The book provides an excellent insight into the topic that will help managers, students, and scholars grasp the fundamentals of green supply and logistics management.
This revised edition of Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management includes valuable supporting online materials, including PPT presentations, chapter summaries, learning objectives, tips for teaching and in class activities.

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations. Based on extensive research, this book covers the whole scope of sustainable logistics. The case studies, with particular attention for use in a teaching context, relate the theoretical concepts to practice and what is happening 'on the ground'. 
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management examines all the key areas in sustainable logistics and supply chain management, including: sustainable product design and packaging; sustainable purchasing and procurement; environmental impact of freight transport; sustainable warehousing and storage; and much more. Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a highly accessible guide to sustainable supply chain management. It provides an excellent insight into the topic that will help managers, students, and scholars grasp the fundamentals of green supply and logistics management. A vital teaching resource for courses on sustainable logistics, this revised edition includes valuable supporting online materials.

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and practices for sustainable operations and management

Kogan Page, Ltd.

Written by three leading experts, this revised edition of Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management looks at key areas in the field, such as: product design, procurement, cleaner production, freight transport, warehousing and storage, purchasing, supply management, reverse logistics, recycling, and strategy.The book now offers downloadable supplemental materials for professors and instructors, including PowerPoint presentations, exercises, key concepts, and study questions and answers.  The authors have updated the tables and graphs and re-written the case studies to sharpen their focus and give them a pedagogical perspective. 

Our daily lives are permeated by the activities of logistics and supply chain, from food and clothing to doorstep deliveries. As these processes have the ability to significantly impact the natural environment, it has never been so important to develop and implement sustainable principles and practices. Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is an essential textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students for understanding sustainability as it pertains to logistics operations. This book covers the direct environmental impacts of logistics and supply chain processes, including emissions and waste, as well as how wider changes such as globalization need to be given similar considerations. Presenting different pathways to guide readers, case studies and supported by extensive research, this book provides all the support needed to understand and implement a sustainable approach. Now in its third edition, Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is fully updated with the latest research and data including trends in logistics and supply chain management and new cases. Online resources include instructor manuals and complied lists of figures and tables.

About the Author\nDavid B. Grant is Vice Rector (Dean) of Research and Societal Impact and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken School of Economics, Finland. He is also a Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Recent visiting appointments include the École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur, Paris and Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá as the Silla Corona Distinguished Visiting Professor.\nDavid B. Grant obtained his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University and his thesis, which investigated customer service, satisfaction and service quality in UK food processing logistics, received the James Cooper Memorial Cup PhD Award from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK).\nHis research interests include logistics customer service, satisfaction and service quality; food and non-food retail logistics; and reverse, closed-loop and sustainable logistics. David B. Grant has over 250 publications in various refereed journals, books and conference proceedings and is Senior Associate Editor for the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Associate Editor for the Journal of Supply Chain Management and on the editorial board of several other international journals. Two of his recent Kogan Page books, his edited Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management: Case Study Collection and Fashion Logistics, co-authored with Professor John Fernie, received the Ouvrage Nominé 2016 for Les Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain awards in Paris.\nDr Alexander Trautrims is a Lecturer in Supply Chain and Operations Management at Nottingham University Business School, UK. His research focuses on sourcing, compliance and supply issues in supply chains.\nProfessor Chee Yew Wong is Chair of Supply Chain Management at Leeds University Business School, UK. He has more than nine years of industrial working and consultancy experience in operations, purchasing, production, inventory and distribution management, and supply chain design with SMEs and multinational companies.\nOur daily lives are permeated by the activities of logistics and supply chain, from food and clothing to doorstep deliveries. As these processes have the ability to significantly impact the natural environment, it has never been so important to develop and implement sustainable principles and practices.\nSustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is an essential textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students for understanding sustainability as it pertains to logistics operations. This book covers the direct environmental impacts of logistics and supply chain processes, including emissions and waste, as well as how wider changes such as globalization need to be given similar considerations. Presenting different pathways to guide readers, case studies and supported by extensive research, this book provides all the support needed to understand and implement a sustainable approach.\nNow in its third edition, Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is fully updated with the latest research and data including trends in logistics and supply chain management and new cases. Online resources include instructor manuals and complied lists of figures and tables.

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Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Revised Edition)

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and practices for sustainable operations and management

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Revised Edition)

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management