Sustainability in Supply chain management is not enough

To be or not to be - sustainable, that is the

question. To be sustainable or green, seems to be

the new mantra in supply chain management.

Nearly every conference and SCS magazine has the

topic on the agenda.

The topic of sustainability is not new in a supply

chain context. For some years Corporate Social

Responsibility - CSR (child labour, code of conduct,

etc.) has been a topic especially in sourcing, but

the application of sustainability in an

environmental perspective, carbon footprint and

so on, is fairly new