Sustainable Supply Chains

Course Description

Sustainability concerns have a substantial impact on how firms produce, deliver, source, innovate, and select the products and services they offer to add value, meet regulatory requirements, and meet customer demands. Through case studies, scholarly articles, simulations, and games, students will learn about the value chain as it relates to sustainability. This course provides an in-depth examination across various industries of operations and supply chains, reactive and proactive approaches to sustainability, environmental regulations and their impact on firms’ operations, and holistic sustainability concepts such as closed loop supply chains, industrial symbiosis, circular economy, biomimicry, and industrial ecology. The students will also become familiar with greenhouse gas accounting, life cycle assessment, and other quantitative methods used to make data-driven decisions about sustainable practices Prerequisite(s): BU.520.601 OR BU.913.610 OR BU.920.711 OR BU.920.721

Code

BU.610.710

Credits

2

Subject

Operations Management

Programs That Include This Course

• Master's Environmental Health and Engineering, Master of Arts