Impacts of Sustainability on Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Nowadays, environmental strategies are critical for improving organizational operations. Therefore, sustainable supply chain management plays a key role in supporting organizations improve their overall performance. This paper seeks to determine the level of correlation between sustainability practices and supply chain management within diverse organizational contexts. The research study was facilitated through a systematic review approach. It was based on a data pool consisting of 13 secondary sources that were obtained from online research databases such as Web of Science and Scopus. The sources were subsequently subjected to the exclusion and inclusion criteria. The results obtained indicated that sustainability practices can have a can have a direct and statistically significant impact on organizational operations such as procurement, manufacturing, and logistics, which fall under supply chain management functions. However, it is unclear, whether sustainability practices impacts procurement or logistics processes more. The findings further implied that the implementation of sustainability practices at an organizational level can result in the establishment of novel linkages with partners in the supply chain. The linkages result from the necessity of forming relationships with additional suppliers to obtain relevant resources.