E-Book Sustainable Supply Chain

Anicia Jaegler and Thierry Roques, professors at KEDGE, are co-authors of a book dedicated to the sustainable supply chain. They propose solutions to make supply chain practices more responsible in a context of ecological and societal transition.

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    Book presentation in 9 chapters

    The purpose of this book is to offer practitioners and students a set of best practices for sustainable and responsible management of supply chains to meet the ecological and societal transition. It has been designed to facilitate the appropriation of tools by actors and their implementation in companies. 

    In this book, we have chosen to talk about the sustainable and responsible supply chain. This terminology may seem out of sync or even redundant if we compare it with the numerous expressions that qualify the evolution of supply chains towards more ecology, more transparency, more circularity and more Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

    This choice is justified by a desire to clearly support our statement on the three pillars of sustainable development, economic, ecological and social, while not privileging any of them to the detriment of the other two. 

    The good practices presented in this book are classified into 9 themes, themselves organized around 4 parts: 

    • Structuring your upstream supply chain (chapter 1: Eco-design; chapter 2: Buying sustainably and responsibly)
    • Optimizing the internal supply chain (chapter 3: Sustainable management; chapter 4: Sustainable storage)
    • Deploying the downstream supply chain (chapter 5: Sustainable packaging; chapter 6: Implementing reverse logistics; chapter 7: Sustainable transport)
    • Having a holistic approach (chapter 8: Certifying your supply chain; chapter 9: Improving your performance)

    Contact the autors

    Anicia JAEGLER
    Thierry ROQUES

    Who is this book for?
    Which readers for the book?

    You are managers, employees, students and therefore actors of the sustainable and responsible supply chain of tomorrow but you wonder how to make a supply chain sustainable?

    This book, a real practical guide, aims to help managers to set up a strategic and operational management of a sustainable and responsible supply chain. It has been designed to facilitate the appropriation of the tools by the actors as well as their implementation in the companies. 

     

    Structuring your upstream supply chain

    What is it about?

    Why ?

    Institutional, legal and normative framework

    Best practices

    Performance 

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    Why ?

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    Institutional, legal and normative framework

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    Optimizing the internal supply chain

    What is it about?

    Institutional, legal and normative framework

    • The Charte de la diversité is a text of commitment proposed to the signature of any employer, who wishes by a voluntary approach, to act in favor of diversity and thus exceed the legal framework of the fight against discriminations (in French)
    • Launched by « L’Autre Cercle », the Charte d’Engagement LGBT+ provides a formal framework for a policy to promote diversity and prevent discrimination (in French)
    • The Parenthood charter aims to take parenthood into account in companies, whatever the family configuration and throughout the life cycle, in order to help employees reconcile their professional, personal and family lives
    • The global business network for people with declared disabilities (Global Business and Disability Network, GBDN), is the only network of its kind in the world that brings together leading multinational companies working with the ILO - the UN agency for the world of work - for the benefit of businesses, people with disabilities, economies and communities around the world.
    • The Label Diversité implemented in 2008 demonstrates a company's commitment to promoting diversity and preventing discrimination (in French)
    • The Gender Equality – European Standard label (GEES) aims to promote the development of a common culture of professional equality between women and men
    • The Economic Dividends for Gender Equality certification (EDGE) is a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative measurement system for the results of an equality policy
    • EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
    • ISO 14001 "Environmental Management Systems - Requirements and Guidelines for its Use".
    • ISO 14004 "environmental management systems - general guidelines for implementation".
    • ISO 14005 "environmental management systems - guidelines for a flexible approach to phased implementation"
    • ISO 14031 "Environmental Management - Environmental Performance Evaluation – Guidelines »
    • ISO 14064 "Greenhouse Gases - Part 1: Specifications and Guidance, at the Agency Level, for Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals"
    • ISO 30415 "Human Resources Management - Diversity and Inclusion
    • ISO/AWI TS 30436 "Human Resource Management - Technical Specification of Diversity and Inclusion Measures"

    Best practices

    Performance

    • The ISO 14031 standard formalizes the framework for assessing climate performance within a supply chain and proposes 3 categories of indicators

    Examples

    What is it about ?

    Why ?

    Legal framework and certifications of the sustainable warehouse

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    Deploying the downstream supply chain

    Why is it important to change to a sustainable and responsible approach to product packaging?

    • DS Smith
    •  World Wide Fund Belgique (in French)

    Legal framework and certifications for sustainable packaging

    Best practices

    Performance

    • Indicators proposed by the French National Packaging Council (to download)

    Examples

    Institutional, legal and normative framework

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    Why?

    Legal framework and certifications for sustainable transport

    Best practices

    • Federation of E-commerce and Distance Selling (FEVAD) (in French)
    • Groupement des Autorités Responsables de Transport (GART) (in French)
    • Programme Innovations Territoriales en Logistique Urbaine durable (InTerLUD) (in French)
    • ISO 37100 - Sustainable cities and territorial communities
    • ISO/TC 268 (in progress) for urban resilience
    • ISO 37181 - Intelligent urban infrastructure - intelligent transportation by autonomous vehicles on public roads
    • ISO 37166 - Smart Urban Infrastructure - Urban Data Integration Framework for Smart City Planning
    • ISO 37180 - Intelligent Urban Infrastructure - Guidelines for intelligent transportation using QR code identification and authentication in the field of transportation and its related or additional services
    • ISO 37161 - Smart Urban Infrastructure - Intelligent Transportation Recommendations for Energy Savings in Transportation Services
    • ISO 37152 - Smart urban infrastructure - common framework for development and operations

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    Having a holistic approach

    Institutional, legal and normative framework for the certification of a sustainable supply chain

    Best practices

    Examples

    • Europages offers a directory of French industrial companies certified ISO 14001 (in French)
    • The complete list of SA 8000 certified companies is available on the NGO website SAI
    • The complete list of ISCC certified companies is available on the ISCC
    • Sedex

    Institutional, legal and normative framework

    • The measures of European Green Deal. These measures aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
    • Greenhouse gas assessment system (BEGES) (in French)
    • ISO 14069 - Greenhouse Gases - Quantifying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions for organizations
    • ISO 14067 - Greenhouse gases - Carbon footprint of products. It aims to meet the objective 13 of sustainable development
    • ISO 14064 - Greenhouse Gases - Part 1 Specification and Guidance at the Agency Level for Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals
    • ISO 14080 - Greenhouse gas management and related activities - Framework and principles of methodologies for climate action It aims to meet sustainable development goals 12 and 13
    • ISO 14097 - Greenhouse Gas Management and Related Activities - A framework of principles and requirements for climate change assessment and reporting of investments and financing activities. It aims to address Sustainable Development Goals 8, 11 and 13
    • ISO 19694 - Stationary Source Emissions-Determination of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Energy-Intensive Industries
    • ISO/TC 282 is a declination of 4 standards (ISO/TC 281/SC1-SC2-SC3-SC4), aiming to frame the recycling of water from different sources.
    • ISO 30500 - On-site wastewater systems - Prefabricated integrated treatment units - General performance and safety requirements for design and testing
    • FAO
    • ISO/TC 331 - Biodiversity
    • Agence NAtionale de GEstion des Déchets (ANAGED) (in French)

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    Measurement indicators