Sustainable Supply Chain: Concepts, models and trends

Context: The green and sustainable dimensions take on importance as they need to be incorporated into strategic, tactical and operational objectives in companies and supply chains in order to mitigate negative impacts on the environment and society. Method: Based on a review of the state of the art in the Scopus, Web of Science and ScienceDirect databases, from the joint perspective of sustainability and supply chain management, the state of the art in green and sustainable supply chain management is presented. Results: The reader is introduced to concepts and trends around the green and sustainable supply chain management field that seek to awake interest in new research and practices to guide the implementation of sustainability in organizations and their supply chains. Conclusions: Sustainable supply chain management still faces several academic and practical challenges in terms of implementation, measurement of performance and how models can capture a dynamic and uncertain social and environmental context. There are latent research issues such as management of the circular supply chain, applications in emerging economies or the application of 4.0 technologies.