Sustainability In Supply Chain Management

Business is getting increasingly sophisticated due to the huge concurrence of global markets. Each organization either small or big has to stick to a kind of structure and strategy within its operations to make projects successful. During the last decades, companies moved from Logistics Management in 1986 to Supply Chain Management. Today’s Supply Chain Management also includes production and distribution by creating a chain of information from suppliers to costumers through the company. Since the customers’ expectations and global markets’ demand are getting more consequent, companies are forced to invest in and to pay attention to their supply chain to manage both cost and customers’ requirements. Supply Chain Management is one of

Designing food industry’s management strategies have become more challenging and more complicated than ever due to the poverty, the impact of Agrifood organizations and the environmental concerns. Furthermore, the tough challenges of our generation such as the economic crisis, the global warming and the social exclusion have made Agri businesses more problematic. In order to face these challenges, organizations would rather employ sustainability in their Supply Chain Management by designing the Supply chain network. In fact, important decisions such as identifying the capacity of agricultural capacity over a region have made things easier in term of sustainability. In addition to that, the current evolution of technology and the infrastructure of this last two decades are good for the development of the network in the agricultural sector. The capacity of production is increasing significantly due to the advance of technology in this field. Machines help producers to gain time and reduce costs of labor. This macro production has made the food supply chain management a necessity. In my opinion, it became impossible at this stage to build a powerful company of food production without building a strong network to take care of the distribution and the logistics. The ability or not to succeed

Some businesses can’t even live without it anymore. It maintains costs low by optimizing the quantity of production and its quality depending on the consumer’s requirements. It allows organizations to stand in front of the big challenges of our generation. Also, it makes suppliers focused on the most important factor of their activity which is the satisfaction of the consumer. As global business is growing and the concurrence is getting tough, can we expect a management of a bigger network than the supply chain network in the