Sustainable Supply Chain Management CWI

Sustainable Supply
Chain Management

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Identify the three most critical environmental sustainability of supply chain issues..................1
How Supply Chain Management issues being addressed............................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Supply chain Sustainability refers to the efforts of an organization that is considered the
environmental and human activities which create an impact on their products, through the supply
chain, from raw materials to production stage and storage, delivery with their transportation.
Supply chain management focuses on speed, cost and operation reliability, and sustainable
supply chain management which adds goals of their upholding the environmental and societal
values of an enterprise (Hussain and Malik, 2020). In sustainable supply chain is having three
main responsibilities that management need to focus are social, environmental, and financial in
their enterprise. This report is based on Marks and Spencer which is established and founded in
Leeds, the UK in the year 1884. It is a British retailer which focuses on and provides quality
food, items of clothing, and homeware, it serves millions of customers in the world.
This report includes the three most critical sustainability supply chain issues and further,
and it also covers how these issues are being addressed.
MAIN BODY
Identify the three most critical environmental sustainability of supply chain issues
Environmental Sustainability of supply chain which practices collaboration of their
manufacturers and resources, this helps an organization to reduce waste, environmental risk, and
cost. It is a typical consumer company whose supply chain creates social and environmental
costs from its operations. This helps management to minimize environmental risk from factors
like energy consumption, water consumption, and waste production which have a positive impact
on people and communities and around their operations (Rebs, Brandenburg and Seuring, 2019).
This indirectly impacts enterprise goals and it will be accomplished effectively and efficiently if
all consumption and production are used properly by management in the company. It also
considers the coordinating of sourcing, production, inventory management and transportation
among their participants in the supply chain to maximize efficiency and satisfaction of
customers. Many businesses realize the major time and cost savings that improve and evaluate
supply chain management. Marks and Spencer are utilizing their raw material in a very effective
way so that it can beat its competitors by the pricing of its products in the market. Marks and
Spencer is having good supply chain management in a market where they have good storage and
transportation but they faced a few problems when they doing sustainability supply chain
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management (Jia, Gong and Brown, 2019). The most three critical environmental sustainability
of supply chain issues which are explained below:
Insufficient response to technology trends:
In an organization, management faced problems while running the latest technology for
the production of their business. The employees are not having good knowledge and expertise
skills for operating the latest technology and this will indirectly impact on objectives of their
business and management do not have the potential to accomplish their objectives in a given
time frame. This direct impact on the supply chain management of an enterprise which is
production, storage and delivery and transportation (Luthra and Mangla, 2018). This sustainable
supply chain helps to improve their productivity and helps to save money and time for the
organization. A sustainable technique and resources indirectly impact on increasing efficiency of
their buildings, vehicles and machinery with very significant cost savings. In Marks and Spencer,
management sustains their supply chain management then they faced problems in an
organization when they run their business process. In business, management will not able to
sustain and do not utilize their raw material effectively in the organization for the production of
their products. This also affects the price of products, if the raw material is not properly utilized
then a product of price will be increased (Vargas, Mantilla and de Sousa Jabbour, 2018). This
will create a problem for an enterprise that they don't have the potential to sustain their raw
material and it also impacts Marks and Spencer objectives that they do not achieve their goals in
a given time frame. In Marks and Spencer, their employees are also facing problems related to
technology operation activity that they don't able to operate activities effectively which relates to
technology. When technology is upgraded then they faced problems to adopt new technology in
their enterprise.
Natural or Environment occurrences:
The natural or environmental occurrences are the most important concern for an
organization because of an organization is used raw materials for the production of their product
that is not eco-friendly then it will directly impact the environment, so the environmental
condition is a very negative impact on the environment (Sauer and Seuring, 2018). This is a very
big issue that is faced by people due to environmental factors so, enterprise management needs to
take essential steps which help an organization improve their raw materials for their production.
This help to improve their environmental condition. The UK government also have to take strict
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