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  • How to create more sustainable SCM?
    Potočan, Vojko ; Nedelko, Zlatko
    Organizations in modern environment are able to assure their existence with the entire satisfaction of need and demands of end-customer. Producers can competitive on the market, when they offer ... suitable: prices, quality, range, uniqueness, and contribution to sustainable development. For this reason they are confronted with the constant dilemma, how to re-form their work in order to reach the desired target result. Innovative performing of purchasing operations and physical distribution has also important role in business. To deal with the whole supply process many different integrated concepts of managing across the traditional functional areas of purchasing operations and physical distribution were developed, such as supply chain management (SCM). SCM presents strategically significant concept, which can be defined as managing of the entire chain of raw material supply, manufacturing, assembly and distribution to the end customer. In faces the same natural and market conditions as all other areas of business, including the requirement of sustainable development (SD). SCM can succeed, if stakeholders of SCM do understand (and implement in operation practice) important business trends on the basis of sustainable development of supply chain (e.g. green logistics), and appropriate business ethics, which means sustainable SCM ethics.
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2009
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 10180636