This article, written by Keivan Zokaei and Professor Peter Hines from the Lean Enterprise Research Centre examines how sustainability in supply chain management might be acheived.

The successful supply chain of tomorrow must take environmental sustainability into account alongside economic competitiveness. Leading companies such as Interface Corp., Toyota, Tesco, Mark & Spencer and Walkers crisps have not only saved the environment by investing in greening their supply chains but also have saved themselves heaps of money and banked consumers’ goodwill. Nevertheless the existing supply chain toolbox is geared around making ever more efficient chains and largely neglects carbon as the currency of the future.   To read the full article, please click here.