Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practical Ideas for Moving Towar

This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially.This book is not about a wish list of impractical choices, but the reality of decisions faced by all those involved in supply chain management

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice

Balkan Cetinkaya Berlin Institute of Technology (TU-Berlin) Department of Technology and Management Chair of Logistics Strasse des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany [email protected] Graham Ewer European Logistics Association Head Office Kunstlaan/Avenue des Arts 19 1210 Brussels Belgium [email protected] Wojciech Piotrowicz University of Oxford Saı¨d Business School Park End Street OX1 1HP Oxford United Kingdom [email protected]

Richard Cuthbertson University of Oxford Saı¨d Business School Park End Street OX1 1HP Oxford United Kingdom [email protected] Thorsten Klaas-Wissing Chair of Logistics Management University of St.Gallen Dufourstrasse 40a 9000, St. Gallen Switzerland [email protected] Christoph Tyssen Chair of Logistics Management University of St.Gallen Dufourstrasse 40a 9000, St. Gallen Switzerland [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-12022-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12023-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12023-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Foreword

The European Logistics Association, ELA, has been engaged with the bestLog project since its inception in 2005. We have always seen its aims as being close to our own core purposes as an association of professional bodies for logistics practitioners across Europe. It is exciting to see the project coming to fruition – doubly so for ELA since we will play a key role in the operation of the Platform which will run on after the Project to promote and enable the sharing of best practice in logistics. The goal of achieving greater efficiency through best practice to achieve better commercial performance with reduced environmental and social impacts is a prize of enormous importance and value to every one of us. This objective is all the more important in the face of the s