GRMT 6140

Week2, Notes
Based on Belvedere and Grando (2015)
Sustainable Operations and
Supply Chain Management as
Competitive Factors
Chapter 2

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Introduction

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 Barilla’s Goals
1. Good for you
• 100% products aligned to most updated
standards for quality and food safety
• Raise global volumes of products in line with
Barilla’s nutrition guideline to 90%
• Offer scientifically relevant information on food
and nutrition
2. Good for the planet
• Reduce CO2 emissions and water consumption
by 30%
• 100% strategic raw materials purchased
responsibly
3. Good for the communities
• Increase the number of farms involved in
projects that improve competitiveness of local
agriculture
• Promote social inclusion of people in need
through food donations
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 Analyzing Sustainable Operations

Function / Process Operations Supply Chain Logistics

Function / Process Operations Supply Chain Logistic

management management management management

Sustainability Sustainable Sustainable Sustainable

management Operations Supply Chain Logistic
Issues Management Management Management

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Supply Chain and Logistics
• “Supply chain is the network of
all entities involved in producing
and delivering finished product
to the final customer.”
• Supply chain management
integrates supply and demand
within and across companies.
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• “Logistics in the business
function responsible for
transporting and delivering
products to the right place at the
right time through the supply
chain.”
• Logistic management plans,
implement, and controls the
forward and reverse flow and
storage of goods, services and
related information from origin
to consumption.
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Operations, Supply Chain and
Competitive Advantage
1. Strategic Alignment
2. Decision Making
3. Performance Management & Control
4. Performance and Trade-off Management
5. Reference Framework in Sustainable Operations

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Strategic Alignment
1. Corporate
2. Business
3. Function (Supply Chain)
1. Market-based
2. Resource-based

Source: Belvedere and Grando (2015)

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Decision Making
1. Hardware Levers
• About infrastructure and system
choices (including technology)
2. Software Levers
• About the planning and control
systems (management systems)

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Performance Management and Control

Hard and Soft Design

And Management Decisions

External Variables
and Constraints

Internal Performance
(Operating Conditions)

External Performance

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Performance and Trade-off Management
1. Costs
2. Quality
3. Flexibility
4. Time

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Sustainable Supply Chain
Strategy Organizational
Sustainability as part
of an integrated Environmental Culture
Deeply ingrained
Strategy
Performance

Sustainability
Best
Risk Management
Contingency planning Economic Social Transparency
Stakeholder
Performance Performance engagement
Supplier operations

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 Framework for Sustainable Operations
Strategic Alignment

Lifecycle analysis Design and Product Product Product use End-of-life Performance
production manufacture packaging and recovering management
Corporate Social Responsibility

distribution options and reporting

Economic
sustainability
Environmental
sustainability
Social
sustainability
Performance
management
and report
External and Design and Manufacturing Logistic Reverse logistics Management
internal players engineering suppliers distributors external service control and
external contractors providers external control
providers

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