Supply Chain Management: Volume 20 Issue 3

How “smart cities” will change supply chain management

Elcio M. Tachizawa, María J. Alvarez-Gil, María J. Montes-Sancho

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of smart city initiatives and big data on supply chain management (SCM). More specifically, the connections between smart…

Climate policy and solutions for green supply chains: Europe’s predicament

David Bonilla, Hartmut Keller, Juergen Schmiele

This paper aims to measure carbon footprints (CFs) of products at the sectoral levels. The paper also aims to provide potential solutions to adopt greener supply chains to…

Enterprise systems: are we ready for future sustainable cities

Naim Ahmad, Rashid Mehmood

This paper aims to revisit the adoption reasons of enterprise systems (ES) and supply chain management systems (SCMS) and to explore the new dimensions of sustainability required…

The role of a structured stakeholder consultation process within the establishment of a sustainable urban supply chain

Ines Österle, Paulus T. Aditjandra, Carlo Vaghi, Gabriele Grea, Thomas H. Zunder

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse a case of local freight stakeholder involvement to plan and design eco-efficient city logistics innovations in Como, a small…

Future cities and self-organising value chains: the case of the independent music community in Seoul

Bernard Burnes, Hwanho Choi

This article aims to explore the arguments that citizens of future cities will increasingly live in virtual communities as well as bricks and mortar ones, and that some previously…

Transforming the news value chain in the social era: a community perspective

Maria Jose Hernandez Serrano, Anita Greenhill, Gary Graham

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework to understand the influence that the social era is having on the value chain of the local news industry. The authors…

Green supplier selection using an AHP-Entropy-TOPSIS framework

James Freeman, Tao Chen

This paper aims to focus on development of a green supplier selection model using an index system based on a combination of traditional supplier and environmental supplier…

Exploring future cityscapes through urban logistics prototyping: a technical viewpoint

Gary Graham, Rashid Mehmood, Eve Coles

The purpose of this technical viewpoint is to provide a commentary of how we went about using logistics prototyping as a method to engage citizens, science fiction (SF) writers…