A Review of Literature on Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Challenges and Solutions
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Sustainability in Supply Chain, Challenges and Barriers, Achieving Sustainability, Future TrendsAbstract
Sustainability in supply chain management is crucial approach that combine environmental social and the economic factor into supply chain operation. it increasingly identified as a essential component for achieving environmental, economic and social sustainability within organization. This review strengthens the research insights organised the challenges, factors affecting environment and future trends in sustainability in supply chain management adoption. This paper explores various dimension of sustainability in supply chain management and highlighting the above Research Insights that Shape its implementation. Additionally the route to achieving sustainability are highlighted through innovative structure, technological advancement and policy based solution. The key difficulties such as organizational barrier, financial constraints are analysed alongside possibly presented by industry 4.o, circular economy model and green logistics. Besides, policy and regulatory issue plays a vital role in molding the landscape of sustainability in supply chain management in many zones inadequate government support under vague regulations hinder companies efforts to accept sustainable practices. The paper is structured into several key sections: challenges and barriers of sustainability in supply chain management, environmental factors of sustainability in supply chain management, future trends in sustainability in supply chain management, achieving sustainability in supply chain management. The each section combine existing research and offers insights how these elements connect to Forster sustainability in supply chain.
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