Much has been said about Circular Economy in sectors as from durable products or not as so (for instance, apparel, fashion sector). Nonetheless, there are also the advocation that CE can harm industrial progress, because the life extension of a product with long lastig consumption would mean less industrial production (in the known industrial paradigm). So, coming back to the old deadlock of sustainability within production, would it be considerable that CE could be a reality within different supply chains that eventually introduce trade-offs (economic/environmental) in order to balance their gains and losses? For sure, a model like this would go beyond reverse logistics, which is noticeable full of flaws for entire products. I imagine that incentives to CE in one tier of a supply chain would demand a balance in other tier of the same chain, or in other supply chain. But how could this work considering not only sustainability indicators of production? How can one combine such indicators with economic/risk indicators that go far on a single supply chain?
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Indicators should measure how much the strategy of companies are considering CE initiatives on their strategy. If you consider only production aspect, it is likely that the company won´t really adopt CE as part of its strategy and only spot initiatives will act in a short term
Hi, Guilherme.
I was wondeing in terms of incentives and trade offs through diverse supply chains for CE implementation. Is it possible a trade off and win-win situation?
Thank you.
CE follows a the concept of take, make, reuse. So all supply chain there is more chance for waste and it ca addressed by CE.
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http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/writing/calls.htm?id=8049
Thank you, Raja, I miss more specific support as economic feasibility studies through diverse supply chains. Best regards.
A key challenge in supply chain is lack of appropriate integration of the functional units of the extended enterprise, Hence, the CE framework strategy should be well integrated throughout the functional units with clarity of roles and duties to be executed by each unit of the extended enterprise.
Thank you all for each reply. I need to be more clear. How can eventual immediate losses in one supply chain (due to circular economy) become gains in other (diverse) supply chain? I wonder on the food-medicines nexus, for instance. I have seen bioeconomy gains in pharmaceutical supply chain that have started with food wastes processes, but I am not sure whether such gains are really effective.
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