Figure 1 is composed of four quadrants representing the four perspective of supply chain sustainability. The upper-left quadrant is labelled ‘Environmental perspective (greening of supply chain)’ and includes production/delivery, transport, waste, and product/service life cycle. The upper-right quadrant is labelled ‘Financial perspective’ and includes efficiency, value, benchmarking and profit. The lower-left quadrant is labelled ‘Social perspective (ethics)’ and includes employee development, technology, employee conditions and communications. The lower-right quadrant is labelled ‘External stakeholder perspective (network)’ and includes local community, regulatory, suppliers/customers, and political.
Back to - Figure 1 The four perspectives of supply chain sustainability
Figure 2 is composed of four quadrants representing the four perspective of supply chain sustainability. The upper-left quadrant (highlighted) is labelled ‘Environmental perspective (greening of supply chain)’ and includes production/delivery, transport, waste, and product/service life cycle. The upper-right quadrant is labelled ‘Financial perspective’ and includes efficiency, value, benchmarking and profit. The lower-left quadrant is labelled ‘Social perspective (ethics)’ and includes employee development, technology, employee conditions and communications. The lower-right quadrant is labelled ‘External stakeholder perspective (network)’ and includes local community, regulatory, suppliers/customers, and political.
Back to - Figure 2 The environmental perspective
Figure 3 is a chart produced by the UK Department of Transport that shows the number of tonne kilometres of domestic freight that was moved within the UK between 1990 and 2015 for three transport modes: road, rail and water. It shows that in 2015, 152 billion tonne-kilometres were moved by road (76% of the total), 18 billion tonne-kilometres were moved by rail (9% of the total), and 31 tonne-kilometres were moved by water (15% of the total).
Back to - Figure 3 Domestic freight: goods moved by mode, 1990–2015
The figure shows a bar chart with five horizontal bars illustrating the typical CO2 emissions in grams per tonne kilometre in 2009. The upper bar shows that very large container vessels emit 3 grams per tonne kilometre; the bar below that shows that oil tankers emit 5.9 grams per tonne-kilometre; the bar below that shows that bulk carriers emit 7.9 grams per tonne kilometre; the bar below that shows that trucks emit 80 grams per tonne-kilometre; and the lowest bar shows that air freight emits 435 grams per tonne-kilometre.
Back to - Figure 4 Comparison of typical CO2 emission between modes of transport (IMO, 2009)
Figure 5 is composed of four quadrants representing the four perspective of supply chain sustainability. The upper-left quadrant is labelled ‘Environmental perspective (greening of supply chain)’ and includes production/delivery, transport, waste, and product/service life cycle. The upper-right quadrant (highlighted) is labelled ‘Financial perspective’ and includes efficiency, value, benchmarking and profit. The lower-left quadrant is labelled ‘Social perspective (ethics)’ and includes employee development, technology, employee conditions and communications. The lower-right quadrant is labelled ‘External stakeholder perspective (network)’ and includes local community, regulatory, suppliers/customers, and political.
Back to - Figure 5 The financial perspective
Figure 6 is composed of four quadrants representing the four perspective of supply chain sustainability. The upper-left quadrant is labelled ‘Environmental perspective (greening of supply chain)’ and includes production/delivery, transport, waste, and product/service life cycle. The upper-right quadrant is labelled ‘Financial perspective’ and includes efficiency, value, benchmarking and profit. The lower-left quadrant (highlighted) is labelled ‘Social perspective (ethics)’ and includes employee development, technology, employee conditions and communications. The lower-right quadrant is labelled ‘External stakeholder perspective (network)’ and includes local community, regulatory, suppliers/customers, and political.
Back to - Figure 6 The social perspective on supply chain sustainability
The figure shows a two-armed scale balancing two theoretical approaches to ethics. The left arm of the scale is labelled ‘Deontology’, which is driven by a moral code that dictates the way you conduct yourself. The right arm of the scale is labelled ‘Utilitarianism’, where the outcome is most important: what gives the greatest benefit for the largest number of people?
Back to - Figure 7 Two theoretical approaches for explaining ethics
Figure 8 is composed of four quadrants representing the four perspective of supply chain sustainability. The upper-left quadrant is labelled ‘Environmental perspective (greening of supply chain)’ and includes production/delivery, transport, waste, and product/service life cycle. The upper-right quadrant is labelled ‘Financial perspective’ and includes efficiency, value, benchmarking and profit. The lower-left quadrant is labelled ‘Social perspective (ethics)’ and includes employee development, technology, employee conditions and communications. The lower-right quadrant (highlighted) is labelled ‘External stakeholder perspective (network)’ and includes local community, regulatory, suppliers/customers, and political.
Back to - Figure 8 The network perspective on supply chain sustainability