Sustainable Supply Chains - How do companies integrate sustainability into their supply chains?
Ziegler, Jessica; Gerhartz, Stephanie (2016)
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2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201604144341
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201604144341
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Recent events have repeatedly raised awareness of the need of companies to take greater responsibility towards a more sustainable world. Due to the fact that companies and supply chains have a greater and further reaching impact than individuals, the aim of this study was to research how companies integrate sustainability into their supply chains.
Theoretic information was gathered mostly from academic literature but also from websites. For the qualitative empirical part Gartner’s top 25 Supply Chain Businesses 2015 ranking provided the pool of researched case companies. Information was mainly collected from the case companies’ websites, their sustainability reports as well as their code of conducts. Additionally, up-to-date articles and news publications were considered to achieve a more detailed picture.
The result of this thesis highlighted that the level of sustainability varies substantially between the examined case companies. Currently, already many programs and sustainability standards have been established to guarantee sustainability throughout entire supply chains. Nevertheless, the studied case companies can still show more efforts in the future to generate an even greater enhancement towards a more sustainable world.
Theoretic information was gathered mostly from academic literature but also from websites. For the qualitative empirical part Gartner’s top 25 Supply Chain Businesses 2015 ranking provided the pool of researched case companies. Information was mainly collected from the case companies’ websites, their sustainability reports as well as their code of conducts. Additionally, up-to-date articles and news publications were considered to achieve a more detailed picture.
The result of this thesis highlighted that the level of sustainability varies substantially between the examined case companies. Currently, already many programs and sustainability standards have been established to guarantee sustainability throughout entire supply chains. Nevertheless, the studied case companies can still show more efforts in the future to generate an even greater enhancement towards a more sustainable world.