Sustainable Supply Chain Management- Period 2

This course aims to introduce students in operationalizing sustainability in supply chains. We define sustainability as the combined economic, environmental, and social optimum of supply chain alternatives that take into account constraints, such as technological limits or legislation, also known as the triple bottom line (TBL) approach of People-Planet-Profit optimization. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is presented as a methodology to quantify the environmental impact of products and processes and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to quantity social impact. Multi Criteria Decision Analysis is introduced as a concept to operationalize the TBL approach for practical sustainable supply chain problems. Next we discuss systems thinking using Systems Dynamics for understanding and evaluating the complex and interactive behaviour of systems, such as sustainable supply chains. Finally the sustainability evaluation of supply chains and the management of reverse supply chains will be addressed.

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.