The Need for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management

While conventional supply chain management focuses on the speed, cost and reliability of operations, sustainable supply chain management adds the goals of upholding environmental and societal values. This means addressing global issues such as climate change, water security, deforestation, human rights, fair labor practices and corruption. The study adopted the method of secondary data to seek the understanding, concepts, current Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) trend industries around the world and available resources for resolving the adverse effects of any supply chain operations. The Three pillars of Sustainability are discussed before moving to the existing solutions and efforts of firms, researchers and Government’s. Also, benefits of Sustainable Supply Chain Management are explained, which is more than just better environment and eco-system health for the current generations and generations to come. The information in this paper tries to make it easy to understand the concept of SSCM and influence large or even small companies to make their supply chain more sustainable moving forward.