Table of Contents
MODULE TITLE: SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN - 1 -
DESIGN AND OPERATION - 1 -
1.0) INTRODUCTION - 3 -
1.1) WHAT IS THE ISSUE? - 3 -
1.2) CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH - 4 -
2.0) SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) - 6 -
3.0) SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION (SCO) - 7 -
4.0) SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE (SCR) - 9 -
5.0) CAN SUPPLY CHAIN BE OPTIMIZED AND RESILIENT? - 10 -
5.1) CONCLUSION - 12 -
6.0) REFERENCES - 13 -
7.0) APPENDIX - 17 -
7.1) VULNERABILITY FACTORS - 17 -
7.2) CAPABILITY FACTORS - 18 -

1.0) Introduction

The fierce competition in global and local markets, has forced company leaders to focus more on developing and designing an efficient and effective supply chain network. Pishvaee and Torabi (2010) ascertain that one of the most strategic and important element of SCM is making a strategic decision on supply chain network design. And this design takes into consideration some critical parameters that come with a lot of variability, such as the flow mechanism across the chain, facility locations, sizes and numbers. Because this long-term decision will impact the competitiveness of the company in many years to come, therefore, the designed network should be robust with these uncertain parameters. As a robust SC structure is the source of sustainable competitive advantage in this turbulent economic downtown. Therefore a robust SC is capable of making a firm resilient (Tang, 2006).
The remaining part of this write-up is organized as follows. Section one discussed the nucleus of the issue at hand and the current state of research. Supply chain management and Supply Chain Optimization are discussed in sections two and three respectively. The last two sections before the conclusion, references, and appendices sections detailed the Supply Chain Resilience and the basis argument on if SC can be resilient and be optimized