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Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chains Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 November 2023) | Viewed by 1062

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Fikri Dweiri

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Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 27272, United Arab Emirates
Interests: supply chain management; quality management; decision making; project management
Dr. Ridvan Aydin

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Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Interests: sustainable product development; closed-loop supply chain management; remanufacturing; sustainable solid waste management
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Dr. Mohammed Said Obeidat

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan
Interests: green supply chain; sustainability; decision making; ergonomics and safety

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, there has been a growing emphasis on considering sustainability in manufacturing operations and supply chain management (SCM). Companies have been focusing on integrating environmental (e.g., lifecycle issues and end-of-life recovery strategies) and social (e.g., health and safety issues) concerns, in addition to economic goals, into all activities along the supply chain. Adopting sustainable manufacturing processes and supply chain operations has been proven to reduce negative environmental impact (e.g., emissions, energy, water, materials), create economic benefits, and improve corporate social responsibility, as well as provide an enhanced competitive edge in the market. The aim of this Special Issue is to promote sustainability studies in manufacturing and supply chain management that align with the scope of the journal.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The following topics will be considered:

  • Advanced tools and techniques in sustainable manufacturing and SCM (i.e., smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and digital twins).
  • Circular economy approach to enhancing the sustainability of manufacturing and SCM.
  • Adopting closed-loop supply chain systems (i.e., reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, and other recovery strategies).
  • Sustainable/green logistics and transportation operations.
  • Governmental policies, legislations and/or regulations towards sustainable/green manufacturing and SCM.
  • Sustainable product and service design including lifecycle assessment.
  • Consumers' sustainability awareness in designing products and SCM.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Fikri Dweiri
Dr. Ridvan Aydin
Dr. Mohammed Said Obeidat
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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 manufacturing
  • sustainable product development
  • sustainable supply chain
  • closed-loop supply chain management
  • circular economy
  • green logistics and transportation
  • lifecycle assessment
  • consumer sustainability

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Abolishing Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles in Dubai Hotels as a Voluntary Act—Scenarios and Environmental Impacts
by Sameh Al-Shihabi, Ridvan Aydin, Zehra Canan Araci, Fikri Dweiri, Mohammed Obeidat and Mohammad Fayez Al Bataineh
Sustainability 2024, 16(8), 3121; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083121 - 9 Apr 2024
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Dubai, a popular vacation spot, has launched an initiative to reduce reliance on single-use plastic water bottles. Tourists in Dubai widely utilize PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) water bottles, and significant quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG) are released during the production and disposal of PET [...] Read more.
Dubai, a popular vacation spot, has launched an initiative to reduce reliance on single-use plastic water bottles. Tourists in Dubai widely utilize PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) water bottles, and significant quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG) are released during the production and disposal of PET bottles. In response to Dubai’s initiative, some hotels eliminated PET bottles and substituted them with environmentally favorable alternatives. These hotels are considered adopters of the initiative, while other hotels that might follow are imitators. Thus, innovation diffusion theory (IDT) is used in this work to forecast the transition of hotels to non-PET bottles. The diffusion of this new behavior is simulated using a system dynamic (SD) model, where factors pushing imitators to abolish PET bottles are found using the Delphi method and hotel surveying. Moreover, the importance of each identified factor is found using an analytical hierarchical process (AHP). Since hotels are divided into several categories based on their service quality, the analysis shows that hotels are affected by other hotels in their category or better categories. Using this conceptual understanding, Bass and generalized Bass modeling are used in the SD model to study how imitating hotels will follow the adopters. Best-, average-, and worst-case scenarios are studied to help decision-makers understand what to expect in the future. For the best- and average-case scenarios, the SD simulation shows that all hotels will potentially have abolished PET bottles in 25 years. However, only 16% of hotels will have cancelled PET bottles in 25 years if the worst-case scenario occurs; thus, decision-makers need to intervene to expedite the process. Full article
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