Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management

This textbook explores the environmental impact of business systems, particularly emissions resulting from logistics and intra-company operations. It highlights how transportation activities between suppliers, companies, and end users contribute to emissions, while intra-logistics within companies consume significant energy to move components and subassemblies.By emphasizing efficient use of material handling equipment and machines, the book:· Provides actionable strategies to reduce energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions at power generation units.· Offers practical approaches to achieving sustainable operations in industries.· Uses Case studies reinforce key concepts, along with chapter summaries, keywords and review questions· Illustrates concepts clearly using tables and figuresAn engaging and practical resource for readers, this book would be ideal for students, researchers, and faculty in supply chain management, operations management, and industrial engineering at both graduate and research levels. It would also serve as a valuable resource for consultants and practitioners, providing insights into models and modeling systems to support better supply chain decisions.

R. Panneerselvam served as a Professor of Operations and Systems Department of Management Studies at School of Management, Pondicherry University. He possesses a total of 41 years of teaching and research experience at Anna University and Pondicherry University put together. He served as the chairman of Computer Society of India (Pondicherry Chapter) and life member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and Computer Society of India. Prof. Panneerselvam has published more than 100 research articles in leading national and international journals and has authored more than 30 textbooks in Industrial Engineering and management, and Computer Science and Engineering. He also provided consultancy, including an overseas consultancy to CEMS, Malaysia.Professor Panneerselvam received academic excellence award in an international conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Practices, Best Selling Author Award from PHI Learning Private Limited, Achiever Award from Anna University for outstanding contributions to academics, and Best Teacher award from Pondicherry University. His areas of research interest include Cellular manufacturing, Assembly line balancing, Simulation, Total covering problem, Supply chain management, Ergonomics, Justin-time (JIT) manufacturing, Technology disruption, Decision support system for manufacturing industry, etc.