This class exists in these courses :
• IÉSEG > IESEG Degree - Programme Grande École > Semester 2 > 2,00 ECTS

Prerequisites

Students enrolled in this course should have taken introductory courses in Operations Management or have basic knowledge of operations acquired from professional experience or from an internship.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student should be able to :
- Behave ethically and manage responsibly
- Master the topics related to design, planning and control of green logistics operations in manufacturing and service industries
- Identify sustainability challenges and opportunities for green logistics and business strategy including the tradeoff of social responsibility with shareholder responsibility
- Create sustainability in global logistics operations
-Synthesize various central concepts and theories of green logistics as the basis for analysing and evaluating the implications for the management of supply chains and the virtual enterprise
- Demonstrate knowledge of technologies and solutions which are used in international green logistics
- Apply emerging management approaches corresponding to green logistics strategy and operations.

Course description

1. International Supply Chain Management shift to Green Supply Chain Management
2. Industrial Ecology
3. Life-Cycle Analysis and Assessment
4. Methodologies for greening the logistics network
5. Decisions in green logistics
6. Eco-Design and Design for Environment
7. The application of green logistics in manufacturing and services: case studies
8. Green jobs of today: business opportunities in the global employment market

Class type

Class structure

Teaching methods

• Case study
• E-learning
• Interactive class
• Presentation
• Project work
• Research
• Seminar
• Tutorial

Assessment

Class Participation (Questions on Articles/Cases), Case Project (Group) and Final Exam

Recommended reading

• The course will not use a single prescribed text book. All the required course material and readings are included in the course pack that is distributed electronically to the students before the course delivery. -

• Sarkis, J. (2006) Greening the Supply Chain, Springer, ISBN 978-1-84628-298-0 - -

• Cetinkaya, B., Cuthbertson, R., Ewer, G., Klaas-Wissing, T., Piotrowicz, W., Tyssen, C. (2011) Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-12022-0 - -

• Emmett, S. & Sood V. (2010) Green Supply Chains: An Action Manifesto (2010), Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470689-41-7 - -

• Olson. E. (2010) Better Green Business, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-0-13-701017-2 - -

Internet resources

• IESEG online