TOWARDS AN ECO-EFFICIENCY MODEL FOR EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN – BRAZILIAN FOOD INDUSTRY

Authors

  • Handson Claudio Dias Pimenta Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil
  • Reidson Pereira Gouvinhas Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte State
  • Stephen Evans Cambridge University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2015.v12.n1.a5

Keywords:

food industry, eco-efficiency, extended supply chain, life cycle management.

Abstract

Designers make decisions that ultimately impact on both the economic and environmental performance of the products, and many of these costs and impacts occur across the supply chain. This paper proposes an eco-efficiency model for product life cycle management within the extended supply chain (ESC) for food industry. Eco-efficiency (EE) has the potential to incorporate both environmental and economic improvement by companies of ESC, and we explore the use of EE in the design process.  It is noteworthy that it is an imperative in the current competitive market that companies must be able to manage their entire production chain taking into account environmental issues as an important factor in their decision-making processes. Therefore, it is believed that EE can integrate and strengthen a company’s functions and assist its decision-making processes as well as implement improvements within its ESC. In this context, it is expected that the proposed model will be able to deliver a validation process based on EE strategies as well as map environmental aspects and its impacts. In addition, the proposed model aims to consider economic aspects along the product ESC and to present elements which can help companies to promote improvements within its supply chain by considering a more environmentally friendly perspective.

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Author Biographies

Handson Claudio Dias Pimenta, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil

Professor

Department of Natural Resource

Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil

Reidson Pereira Gouvinhas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte State

Depto Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN

Stephen Evans, Cambridge University

Department of Engineering

The Institute for Manufacturing

Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability

 

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Published

2015-06-30

How to Cite

Pimenta, H. C. D., Gouvinhas, R. P., & Evans, S. (2015). TOWARDS AN ECO-EFFICIENCY MODEL FOR EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN – BRAZILIAN FOOD INDUSTRY. Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 12(1), 48–54. https://doi.org/10.14488/BJOPM.2015.v12.n1.a5

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