BUSI48W15: Sustainable Supply Chain Management

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• Introduce how businesses and their extended supply chains are having an impact on Sustainability (Economic, Social, and Environmental)
• Provide a critical understanding of how sustainability creates trade-offs in supply chain processes like procurement and often influences the supply chain structure.
• Explore the critical drivers, key barriers, and successful interventions in implementing the principles of sustainability across the supply chains.
• Discuss the emerging landscape and importance of sustainability across supply chain practices, based on real-life case studies.

• Introduction to Supply Chains and its impact on Sustainability
• Evolution of the idea of sustainability and the key drivers
• Sustainable Procurement Practices and Challenges
• Key Stakeholders and Trade-offs
• Reconfiguring Operations and Supply Chain
• Developing a Strategy for Sustainable Supply Chains
• Creating Sustainable Eco-System
• Markets for Sustainable Goods/ Services
• Certification & Carbon Management
• Sustainability and Technology

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the module, candidates will be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of:
• The role of Sustainability in shaping the current and future industry landscape and embedded supply chains .
• The process to critically evaluate technical and managerial issues related to Sustainability across the supply-chain.
• The trade-offs and interventions towards improving sustainable performance of supply chain processes.
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how Organisations via their supply chain practices can contribute
• The emerging market trends and technology that are enabling Sustainability across the supply chains

Subject-specific Skills:

• Ability to identify the underlying assumptions and theoretical differences in Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

Key Skills:

• Written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; interpretation of data; computer literacy.

• Lecture sessions: theory will be outlined together with the relevant research evidence to enable a critical and evidenced-based approach. Seminars will take the form of tutorials and site visits designed to facilitate students to reflect on and apply the knowledge gained of legislations to real-life cases and industrial companies.
• These themes will be explored through a variety of media including videos, written cases and practical exercises. In this way each student will be challenged to apply the theoretical and evidence-based material from lectures and also gain an appreciation of the tools and techniques commonly used by leaders and followers.
• The summative written assignment (which will be topic or case based) will test students' theoretical understanding, their knowledge of relevant evidence, and their ability to apply these to contemporary settings

A range of formative assessment methods will be used, including case-study based exercises, group presentations and group discussions, simulation exercises and business games.

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