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Title Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management: A System of Systems Analysis
ID_Doc 71426
Authors Choi, TM; Cai, YJ; Shen, B
Title Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management: A System of Systems Analysis
Year 2019
Published Ieee Transactions On Engineering Management, 66.0, 4
DOI 10.1109/TEM.2018.2857831
Abstract The system of systems (SoS) theory is an important topic in modern systems engineering management. Previous studies focus mainly on using it to explore large-scale physical systems. Relatively little is known about its applications in business operations. In this paper, through the SoS theory, we explore sustainable fashion supply chain management via a multimethodological approach. To be specific, we first investigate and indicate that the fashion supply chain is a well-qualified SoS. We then propose the critical SoS principles for building a sustainable fashion supply chain. We analytically reveal and investigate the values of these principles by deriving the expected value of SoS principles (EVSOS). In particular, we highlight how the number of market observations as well as the fabric and product leftovers related loss and gain affect EVSOS. We further build a two-stage framework as well as an action matrix for achieving sustainable fashion supply chain management. Finally, a public-data based real case study on Sweden giant fashion enterprise H & M is conducted to illustrate real world applications of the proposed framework.
Author Keywords Supply chains; Supply chain management; Sustainable development; Fabrics; Industries; System of systems; Sustainability; sustainable supply chain management; system of systems (SoS) theory
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000501550600019
WoS Category Business; Engineering, Industrial; Management
Research Area Business & Economics; Engineering
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