Track: Green Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Today, man faces one of the most complex challenges of his existence. Having been able to transform the surrounding environment, he now faces a great dilemma. How to continue to develop, from an economic and social point of view, given the imminent depletion of natural resources? How to maintain accelerated consumption and at the same time stop aggression against the natural environment? From these questions were born new trends such as clean productions and others, somewhat more ambitious, such as the circular economy. These new concepts suggest a change in business and social paradigms aimed at transforming the traditional linear production and consumption model by a circular model. In those supply chains that already operate in the market, the transformation towards a circular model necessarily goes through several stages. The objective of this work is to present a procedure to gradually transform. Then, the main contribution of this article is the application of a general circular economy transition method that allows gradual transformation in real life business. The proposed method permits the section of the most adequate circular business strategy and develops the organizational changes into the company. For future research, it is proposed to test the BCM in other supply chains to demonstrate its generality. Also, a circularity indicator should be introduced to assess the progress in the transformations; to do this; research should be carried out among the different types of indicators that have been developed in the literature.