Life cycle and sustainable supply chain assessment based on exergy analysis
Integration of environmental aspects and taking into account all aspects of sustainable development is one of the new trends in supply chain management (sustainable supply network). In this paper a new method, which is a comprehensive approach to determining the sustainable supply chain from raw material acquisition to the end of life is presented. Applications of the exergy concept in the field of sustainability is shown. The paper presents exergy as useful tool to measure sustainable supply chain. Exergy analysis can be used to identify problem areas in supply chain and inefficient uses of natural resources and design the supply chains for new products in multi-criteria decision making. Several methods taking into account the exergy analysis of any resource of a supply chain for sustainability performance measurement in whole life cycle was proposed.
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