Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Vietnam, 2019

Apeji Uje Daniel
University of Hertfordshire Hatfield

Funlade T. Sunmola
University of Hertfordshire Hatfield

Petros Khoudian
University of Hertfordshire Hatfield

Supply chains strive to improve their visibility levels. For a supply chain, visibility is ability to see clearly from one end of the supply chain to another whilst sharing information across the chain. Visibility performance is achieved principally through improved integration of quality information, coordination of supply chain relationships, bullwhip effect reduction, and enhancement of technological and management capabilities. These factors are important in supply chain visibility assessments. With the increasing need for supply chains to be sustainable, it is imperative that sustainability associated factors are accounted for in supply chain visibility assessments. Accounting for sustainability in the assessment requires integration of factors associated with compliance of green practices embracing environmental, social and economic considerations across products and services life cycle. This paper examines ways of consolidating assessments of supply chain visibility by accounting for sustainability. Following a review of related work, an analysis of sustainability measures in supply chain visibility assessment methods is presented. An integration of a notion of green absorption capacity in supply chain visibility assessments is then suggested and the associated benefits is discussed.

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