Track: Sustainability in Supply Chains and Operations

Abstract

Sustainable supply chain allows integration of environmentally sound choices into supply chain management, shifting focus towards environmental, social and economic impacts across products and services lifecycles. pressures arising from mounting environmental costs, consumer demand for eco-friendly products and services, and profitability amongst others are driving the shift towards a sustainable supply chain. Growing evidence suggests that to effectively respond to these pressures, a key requirement is visibility i.e the extent to which actors within a supply chain have access to, or share, information which they consider as key or useful to their operations, improves decision making and is of mutual benefit. this paper contains a systematic literature review on visibility-enabled sustainable supply chain ecosystems. a total of 38 accepted refereed papers between 2000 and the first quarter of 2017 have been selected and reviewed. the selected papers are then analysed based on their contents and appropriately developed categories. The result shows that visibility impacts significantly on sustainable supply chain and salient themes are emerging in the subject area.