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Level 5 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Circular Economy

LSC506 · Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management — Week 5 of 16

CourseLSC506
Week5 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Circular Economy

  1. Closed-loop reverse logistics
  2. Green procurement standards
  3. ISO 14001 environmental management
  4. Carbon footprint offsetting
  5. Week 4-Lecture 24 : Green Supply Chain
  6. How to manage your supply chain's carbon footprint

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Discuss how the environmental impact of a supply chain can be effectively managed within a supply chain.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: discuss how the environmental impact of a supply chain can be effectively managed within a supply chain.

Study materials

Videos

  • How to manage your supply chain's carbon footprint · YouTube · Warwick Business School · 5 min · for registered students
  • The ins and outs of sustainable supply chains | LSE Event · YouTube · LSE · 80 min · for registered students
  • Rethinking our Disposable Society: how to build a circular economy · YouTube · LSE · 61 min · for registered students
  • Electronics repair and the circular economy | Coffee break research at LSE · YouTube · LSE · 20 min · for registered students
  • MIT SC3x - Circular Economy & Circular Supply Chains · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 61 min · for registered students
  • Opportunities and Analytical Modeling Solutions for Sustainable Circular Supply Chains · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 60 min · for registered students
  • Sustainable Supply Chains with Benny Andrade of Dr. Bronner’s - SC3x Live · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 58 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, 2nd ed. (UN Global Compact & BSR, 2015) · PDF · Un, guidance; 76 pages · for registered students
  • Procurement in the Supply Chain World, ch.: Ethics, Social Responsibility and Sustainability · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 125–132 · for registered students
  • Principles of Marketing, ch. 17.7: Ethical issues in supply chain management · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 597–601 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Emerging Technologies in Modern Supply Chains
  • Week 2: Managing Digital Supply Chain Transformation
  • Week 3: Environmental Impacts of Supply Chain Operations
  • Week 4: Comparative Environmental Analysis of Supply Chain Functions
  • Week 5: Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Circular Economy
  • Week 6: Global Economic Drivers and Supply Chain Dynamics
  • Week 7: Strategic Management of Global Economic Volatility
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Supply Chain Risk Identification and Typologies
  • Week 10: Supply Chain Risks to CSR and Sustainability Standards
  • Week 11: Supply Chain Resilience and Enterprise Risk Mitigation
  • Week 12: Applying Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management in …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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