Abstract
The circular economy (CE) concept has gained wide attention in practice as well as in academia in recent years. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art practices and research in “circular supply chain management” (CSCM), i.e., the integration of CE thinking into supply chain management (SCM) with the goal of achieving “zero wastes”. The review covers 68 real-life CE implementation cases collected by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and 124 publications in well-established, high-ranking academic journals in operations and supply chain management. The comparative review shows that CSCM encompasses multiple dimensions, including closed-loop SCM, reverse SCM, remanufacturing SCM, recycling SCM, and industrial symbiosis. A multi-dimensional CSCM (MD-CSCM) framework is developed to synthesize their interrelationships and to categorize academic publications into multiple research themes. Based on the identified research-practice gaps and pressing research needs, this study discusses important directions for future studies to advance supply chain circularity.
Highlights
In the current era of increasing resource scarcity, the circular economy (CE) concept has been advocated by researchers, policy makers, and business leaders
circular supply chain management (SCM) (CSCM) extends the boundaries of closed-loop SCM to recover value from wastes in the immediate supply chains and across different supply chains with partnering firms in the same industrial sector and/or other sectors
Given the promising vision offered by CE, this study reviews state-of-the-art research and practice in CSCM for understanding the current state and opportunities for future research
Summary
In the current era of increasing resource scarcity, the circular economy (CE) concept has been advocated by researchers, policy makers, and business leaders. Closed-loop SCM can rarely reuse/ recycle all materials within the original supply chains, but CSCM enables value recovery across different supply chains with partnering firms in the same industrial sector and/or other sectors (Weetman, 2017; Genovese et al, 2017) It can achieve a higher level of supply chain circularity. Redesign for the CE and discuss four cases in the washing machine industry They construct a framework to match supply chain redesign challenges with potential levers to overcome them. Farooque, Zhang, Thürer, et al (2019) provide a comprehensive review of 261 journal articles on integrating the CE concept into individual supply chain functions and/or the whole supply chain system They establish a definition of CSCM and advocate more studies in several important research directions. Regarding the CSCM practical implementation, we comprehensively analyze the real-life CE case studies collected by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which represent the best-in-class practices.
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