dc.contributor.author |
Pereda Pons, Eduardo |
dc.date |
2015 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2117/80064 |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
dc.publisher |
Instituto Superior Técnico |
dc.rights |
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.subject |
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses |
dc.subject |
Business logistics -- Management |
dc.subject |
Supply Chain |
dc.subject |
Sustainability |
dc.subject |
Value Stream Mapping |
dc.subject |
Indicators |
dc.subject |
Sustain-Pro |
dc.subject |
Lean |
dc.subject |
Logística (Indústria) -- Direcció i administració |
dc.title |
A new methodology to identify supply chains sustainability bottlenecks |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis |
dc.description.abstract |
The world globalization has been creating a very strong competition amongst companies. To maintain
their market position, companies need to guarantee that all their activities are performed with high
efficacy and efficiency standards, allowing not only a business profit but also a good company image
among their stakeholders. Such reputation is not definitely related only to the service level and the
economic performance but also to the way environmental and social aspects are treated within the
companies’ strategy.
This thesis explores these concerns and presents a simple and systematic methodology (SustainSCVSM)
for supply chain analyses. SustainSC-VSM is composed of a value stream map and a
complementary analysis which is based on the Sustain-Pro methodology. SustainSC-VSM will screen
and identify the main bottlenecks, regarding sustainable factors (economic, environmental and social)
in any supply chain. Moreover, SustainSC-VSM proposes an information factor in order to improve the
coordination among the supply chain actors and their sustainable performance. A set of new indicators
is applied during the analysis; these indicators aims to identify the bottlenecks in terms of sustainability
of the supply chain. The analysis of these indicators points out the issues to be improved, when the
future state Value Stream Map is designed. A set of best practises is also presented as a guideline to
undertake this last step. A case study is presented to highlight the applicability of the developed
methodology. The obtained results point out the direction to harmonize business efficiency standards
and sustainability in the supply chain. |