Sustainable Supply Chains: Strategies, Issues, and Models

Dr Usha Ramanathan is a Professor Sustainability and Supply Chains in Nottingham Trent University, UK.  Usha has a wide experience of teaching for more than two decades. Usha’s research interests include data analysis, supply chain collaboration for sustainability, role of collaboration in SMEs’ performance, Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), value of information sharing and forecasting, e-commerce, RFID, Big Data, retail customer behaviour and loyalty in the contexts of service and operations. She has published in leading journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Expert Systems with Applications and Omega: The International Journal of Management Science. Some of her research work obtained high honours such as the ‘Highly Commended Award’ at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence in 2012 and 2018. Dr Ramakrishnan Ramanathanis a Professor of Operations Management at the University of Bedfordshire Business School, Luton, UK. In the past, he has worked and taught in a number of countries, including the UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Oman and India. His research interests include operations management, supply chains, environmental sustainability, data envelopment analysis and the analytic hierarchy process. Ram has successfully completed more than 30 research projects across the world. His current research projects as Principal Investigator include: (i) the REAMIT project funded by the Interreg North West Europe aimed at reducing food waste in the agribusiness supply chain (nearly 5 million Euro) and (ii) the TAF project funded by the Newton Fund for improving productivity of artisanal fishing in Brazil (nearly £100,000). In addition, Ram is on the editorial boards of several journals and in the technical/advisory committees of several international conferences in his field. He is a member of ESRC Peer ReviewCollege in the UK and reviews applications submitted to the Newton Fund. He has so far produced five books, more than 130 research publications in journals and more than 170 conference presentations. His research articles have appeared in many prestigious internationally refereed journals including Omega, Journal of Business Ethics, Tourism Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Transport Policy, and, Transportation Research

• Management of Sustainable Supply Chain and Industry 4.0: a literature review.- A framework for the application of Industry 4.0 in logistics and supply chains.- Mathematical Models for Sustainable Inventory and Production Plans for Component Remanufacturing Problems of OEM with Break-Even Period Determination.- Greening the supply chain through CSR: A model for assessing sustainability using fuzzy based PPP approach.- Six Sigma Marketing: An Innovative Approach to Achieve Strategic Goals of sustainable supply chains.- Evaluating long term sustainability of supply chains using an evolutionary game theory framework.- Applications of Green Supply Chain Management in the U.K. Restaurant Industry.- Factors Motivating Indian manufacturing SME employers to adopt GSCM practices.- The Influence of Ethical Practice on Sustainable Supplier Selection in Furniture Industry.- Reducing edible food waste in the UK food manufacturing supply chain through collaboration.