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Dear Colleagues,

Continuous climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and war conflicts have been constituting major environmental and socio-economic challenges that pose significant stress in the worldwide economy. From a business perspective, these events have created unprecedented negative implications across global production and supply networks. Hence, it is crucial that forthcoming research investigates how novel business models, indicatively employing circular, human-centric, and/or digital interventions, could transform existing supply chains into more sustainable and resilient ones.

This Special Issue aims to shed light on sustainable production, operations, and supply chains for providing meaningful managerial implications and research recommendations. The submitted articles are anticipated to act as a ‘guide map’ for both academics and practitioners in designing and (re)configuring efficient supply networks, building upon the SDGs in the era of digital transformation.

In this Special Issue, original research articles (e.g., methodological approaches, case studies, analytical/computational models) and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Sustainable production and consumption;
Sustainable supply chains;
Sustainable operations management.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Eirini Aivazidou
Dr. Naoum Tsolakis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

sustainable production
sustainable consumption
sustainable supply chains
sustainable operations management
sustainable business models
circular economy
circular supply chains
social sustainability
digital sustainability
digital supply chains

Published Papers (1 paper)

Research

28 pages, 779 KiB

Open AccessArticle

Hybrid Assessment for Strengthening Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability: A Comprehensive Analysis

by El-Awady Attia and Md Sharif Uddin

Sustainability 2024, 16(10), 4010; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16104010 - 10 May 2024

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Abstract

Organisations encounter a significant challenge in the globalised business landscape, and thus mitigate risk by establishing robust supply chains (SCs) networks is required. In a rapidly changing environment, gaining a competitive edge is imperative. However, the exploration of the essential factors enabling resilient and sustainable supply chain management (RSSCM) in construction projects has been lacking. This study aims to bridge this gap by identifying the enabling factors for resilient and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). To achieve this, a survey was conducted among Egyptian engineers, involving 32 factors derived from an extensive literature review on RSSCM. The data collected were categorised into four groups, namely Organisational Knowledge and Competence, Risk Management and Security, Collaboration and Communication, and Planning Efficiency and Timing, using brainstorming techniques. Subsequently, the data were analysed utilising a novel hybrid assessment approach that combines evaluation of alternatives and ranking, employing the compromise solution-fuzzy synthetic evaluation methodology, for the first time, offering a unique approach to assessing and prioritising these categories. The findings reveal that ‘Planning Efficiency and Timing’ emerged as the highest-performing category, whereas ‘Collaboration and Communication’ performed the worth. Furthermore, our results indicate that brainstorming enabled the grouping of the enablers into four distinct categories, providing a structured framework for understanding and organising them. The integration of MARCOS and FSE offered a robust decision-making approach, proposing a resilient and comprehensive decision-support system capable of tackling intricate real-world issues. This research outcome offers building administrators valuable insights for comparing different supply chains, considering how supply chain characteristics influence resilience and risk exposure in building SCs. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Production and Supply Chain Management)

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