Abstract
Designers make decisions that ultimately impact on both the economic and environmental performance of the products, and many of these costs and impacts occur across the supply chain. This paper proposes an eco-efficiency model for product life cycle management within the extended supply chain (ESC) for food industry. Eco-efficiency (EE) has the potential to incorporate both environmental and economic improvement by companies of ESC, and we explore the use of EE in the design process. It is noteworthy that it is an imperative in the current competitive market that companies must be able to manage their entire production chain taking into account environmental issues as an important factor in their decision-making processes. Therefore, it is believed that EE can integrate and strengthen a company’s functions and assist its decision-making processes as well as implement improvements within its ESC. In this context, it is expected that the proposed model will be able to deliver a validation process based on EE strategies as well as map environmental aspects and its impacts. In addition, the proposed model aims to consider economic aspects along the product ESC and to present elements which can help companies to promote improvements within its supply chain by considering a more environmentally friendly perspective.
Highlights
Environmental tactics have been implemented by companies in response to stricter demands from various sectors of society, namely: non-governmental organisation (NGO)’s (e.g. Greenpeace), government, international treaties (e.g. Rio Submit and Kyoto Protocol), and market demands for improving their sustainable performance.In addition, businesses have been challenged to recognise that the ecological footprint of their products and services is not limited to the production stage of the final product manufacturer (Nawrocka et al, 2009)
This paper aims to present an initial discussion towards an eco-efficiency model for product life cycle management within the extended supply chain (ESC) for food industry in order to facilitate the incorporation of environmental and economic improvement by companies of ESC in their business procedure
It is expected that the product life cycle management based on eco-efficiency measurement in extended supply chain to promote environmental improvements in products and services can be carried out by actions such as:
Summary
Environmental tactics have been implemented by companies in response to stricter demands from various sectors of society, namely: NGO’s (e.g. Greenpeace), government (environmental legislation), international treaties (e.g. Rio Submit and Kyoto Protocol), and market demands for improving their sustainable performance. All stages of the product life cycle influence on the environmental burden of a supply chain, including resource extraction, manufacturing, use, reuse, recycling or final disposal (Zhu et al, 2007). The analysis of the literature revealed that it is difficult to find out how to evaluate the impact of a supply for a product lifecycle in terms of environmental aspects and how to improve some members of ESC and reduce their effect of the product on the environment In this sense, this paper aims to present an initial discussion towards an eco-efficiency model for product life cycle management within the extended supply chain (ESC) for food industry in order to facilitate the incorporation of environmental and economic improvement by companies of ESC in their business procedure
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