Course Name: Operations and Supply Chain Management
Literature Review subject: Sustainability in Operations
This order is to prepare a literature review of 3 pages or more about 'Sustainability in operations'. You need to use from 8 to 10 references.Deadline should be within one day only.
The objective of the literature review is to explore the following items:
- The operational challenges from the sustainability of operation perspectives.
- The best practices in management and operations and wether it applies ISO 9001 or ISO 14001 and 27001.
- Sustainability and environmental issues (including the security and safety issues in its policies and procedures).
- Operational challenges in the era of globalization and how to keep sustainability and balance between the profitability issues and social responsibilities and green practices.
- An obstacle that may face the organizations in implementing their sustainable polices and how they might mitigate them.
- Anything related to the subject.
For your information only
For the same topic (Sustainable practices on the performance of hotels supply chains and its Impacts), we conducted a survey and you can find it attached, for you to have an idea about the literature review subject.
The survey includes some questions about the following variables & Supply chain performance:
Variables include:
1. Environmental Policy
- Publicly declare the hotel's specific environmental policy
- Widely promote the hotel's environmental policy to all employees, customers, and suppliers
- Environmental policy meets current environmental regulations (wastewater discharge, etc.)
2. Resource Management Policy
- Regularly maintain and clean ventilation, air conditioning, heating, and cooking equipments
- Use electric equipment that meets power-saving standards
- Install water leak detection system, and provide for quick leak repair
3. Waste Management Policy
- Minimize food wasting through appropriate distribution, storage, and management systems
- Use electronic versions to transfer and save data in order to decrease paper consumption and waste
- Avoid using disposable items (e.g., disposable tableware. . .)
4. Social Responsibility
- Promote the green hotel concept
- Actively involved in green and environmental protection-related activities
- Actively participate in public affairs of local community
5. Health & safety policy
- Avoid using toxic and dangerous chemicals
- Healthy and comfortable indoor environment (temperature, humidity, wind speed) with
regular monitoring
6. Employee Management
- Employees develop habits for effective use of resources (such as turning off the lights, exhaust
fans, and air conditioning when vacating areas)
- Employees fully understand the extent of corporate environmental policy
- Provide training courses
7. Government Policies
- Government is pushing hotel industry to adapt sustainable practices
- Government inspectors frequently check the sustainable practices of hotels
- Government provides incentives for implement green practices in hotel industry
Supply chain performance include:
1. Economic Performance
- Sustainable practices significantly increase Sales & Capital investments
- Sustainable practices significantly decrease Operating expenditures
- Sustainable practices significantly increase new market opportunities
2. Competitiveness
- Sustainable practices significantly increase Efficiency
- Sustainable practices significantly increase Quality
- Sustainable practices significantly increase Customer satisfaction
Moreover, am a sample project that has the same subject for your information also.
Attachment:- Sustainable practices of hotel supply chains Survey.xlsx