Envi Chapter 8

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The pursuit of sustainability in the delivery of value calls attention to the inputs and outputs associated with every level of the supply cycle.

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Improved Efficiency and Profitability

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Firms that understand their liabilities are better positioned to limit their exposure to risk.

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Better Management of Risk

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Refers to variations in possible outcomes and their likelihoods. Assessment of liabilities includes analysis of supply cycle disturbances and their negative consequences.

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Risk

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Refers to conditions under which a firm invests in specific technologies that have limited use outside of their intended purpose.

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Asset considerations

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Refers to the overall level of risk encountered in the social, economic, and natural environments.

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Macroenvironmental Issues

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Firms that invest in sustainable practices in the supply chain develop positive brand reputations that pay dividends in multiple relationships

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Enhanced Brand Reputation

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Organizations that focus on the triple bottom line have the ability to anticipate and monitor risk associated with economic, social, and environmental returns.

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Stakeholder Returns Increased

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Refers to the process of planning, allocating, and controlling human and financial resources dedicated to physical distribution, manufacturing support, and purchasing operations.

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Logistics

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It trace products back from the point of consumption have increasingly been addressed in supply chains.

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Reverse Logistics

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The costs associated with product transportation are extensive, and since most forms of transportation rely heavily on fossil fuels, this facet of logistics is highly germane to sustainability concerns.

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Fleet Optimization

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Beyond the costs of transportation, firms can also achieve higher levels of efficiency by controlling the energy utilization at distribution and production centers.

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Energy Efficiency

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It provide enormous opportunity to manage the logistics function.

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Innovative Technology

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RFID means

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Radio Frequency Identification

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GPS means

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Global Positioning System

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It has improved the company's efficiency and price competitiveness while simultaneously offering improved information handling and customer service.

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Routing and Tracking Computer System

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It is a second innovative technology that provides a source of competitive advantage.

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Inventory Management Software

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MEI means

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Multi-Echelon Inventory

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It designed to accommodate increasingly global supply chains, contract manufacturing, dynamic product life cycles, and multichannel distribution systems

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MEI Software

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It is an innovative technology that has significant applications in logistics and retailing.

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

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It represent another technology that has the potential to transform logistics.

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Global Positioning System (GPS)

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As the underlying means for ensuring that products are delivered in usable formats and represents an important element of logistics.

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Packaging

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Due to the volatility and rate of change in logistics, firms are increasingly recognizing the opportunities and insight acquired through relationships established with other participants in the supply cycle.

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Interorganizational Relationships

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Third-party suppliers have the expertise to consolidate shipping routes and reduce inventory levels.

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Enhance Vehicle Performance

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Cost is a sensitive issue in the supply cycle because consideration of cost immediately requires evaluation of the value added by the third-party supplier.

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Reduce Total Supply Cycle Costs

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Due to experience with a variety of users and applications, third-party logistics agents can optimize distribution networks and consolidate routes.

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Enhanced Customer Service

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It is a set of regulations established to achieve environmental goals.

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Environmental Management Systems (EMS)

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When one has an understanding of the benefits derived from each function, then one can work toward developing environmentally friendly supply channels that offer heightened benefits throughout the value chain.

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Triple Bottom Line

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a set of organizations involved in the process of making a product available for consumption.

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Channel

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a set of organizations linked directly to the flow of products and information from a source to the consumer.

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Supply Chain

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the set of primary and support activities performed by the firm to serve as sources of competitive advantage.

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Value Chain

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set of entities associated with yielding environmental, social, and economic value from resource procurement through resource processing, consumption, and post consumption.

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Supply Cycles

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presumes that each level of the supply cycle engages in some sort of processing.

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Input Output Process

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are the focal outcomes of processing.

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Products

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refer to all other results of processing.

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by-product

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Outlines the guidelines associated with the firms approach to sustainability, and it provides a strategic approach to the organizations environmental policy.

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ISO 14001 : 2004

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Provides guidance on the establishment, implementation, maintenance and improvement of an environmental management system and its coordination with other management systems.

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ISO 14004 : 2004