The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability. The research and its outcomes presented here provide theoretical and empirical studies on efficiency analysis in the supply chain, including operational, economic, environmental and social aspects. This book sheds new light on the efficiency-assessment framework for practitioners and includes essential tips on how to improve the sustainability of supply-chains operations.

Includes tips on how to improve the sustainability of supply-chains operations Provides a viable assessment framework for practitioners Includes case studies and best practices from industry Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Part 1: Sustainable supply chain in forming environmental macro responsibility.- The transformation of supply chains in closed-loop supply chains.- Innovative approaches to improve sustainability of physical distribution in Dutch agrifood supply chains.- Sustainability indispensable part of the logistics development.- Using DMAIC for making sustainable supply chain efficient in a GRAI environment.- Ecological aspects of the implementation of logistics processes in e-commerce.- Green logistics as the basis for improving environmental efficiency of transport.- Part 2: Virtual reality based ecodesign.- Using 3D system in eco-design case study.- The impact of eco-efficiency in production on availability of machines and equipment.- The analysis of economic and environmental effects of cooperation between enterprises and in the provision of transport a case study.- Efficient demand management in retailing through category management