Sustainable Supply Networks

When aiming at sustainable production systems, it is necessary to consider not only economic and technical aspects, but also legal, ecological and social requirements within the decision ma­king process as well as trade-off effects between them. Additionally, sustainable production cannot be reached only by measures applied in the own company, but requires cooperative relationships. With regard to the products that are generated within these production systems, it is necessary to consider inter­de­pen­den­cies bet­ween different life cycle phases. This is due to the fact that measures taken in one spe­ci­fic life cycle phase also affect other life cycle phases of the product. For evaluation of such complex systems, aggregate but still meaningful indicators are needed and information is to be shared among participants.

Against this background, this ERIM-Seminar aims at developing a frame­work for modelling, eva­lu­ation, configuration and coordination of the resulting com­plex Sus­tai­na­ble Supply Net­works. An inte­gra­ted look is taken on the life cycles of the products generated within these networks as well as on the actors and processes of the networks. To show applicability of the framework, various research projects in the context of Sustainable Supply Networks that are or will be carried out at Technical University Braunschweig and as cooperation between TU BS and RSM will be presented.

Contact information:

Naima Zerhane

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