An Integrated Sustainability Analysis Approach to Support Holistic Decision Making in Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) has recently emerged to address environmental and social concerns in product and service operations. Existing research has investigated sustainability issues at isolated stages of the supply chains. This paper aims to address Triple Bottom Line sustainability in a coherent manner. The paper proposes an integrated sustainability analysis (ISA) approach which seamlessly integrates Life Cycle Assessment into Multi-Criteria Decision Making process. Application of the integrated approach to an industrial case demonstrates that the proposed approach can provide concerted scientific backup to efficiently and effectively support holistic decision making in SSCM. The ISA approach has the potential to enable true integration of environmental management and social responsibility with supply chain management.