Quantitative modelling of sustainable supply chains under major disruptions

Project Information

DISRUPT

Grant agreement ID: 299255

Project closed

Start date 25 March 2013

End date 24 March 2015

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 278 807,40

EU contribution € 278 807,40

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
United Kingdom

Objective

The purpose of this project is to advance knowledge and management practice on supply chain approaches to managing sustainability and responding to natural disruption. Three dimensions are used in literature to categorize sustainability: social, environmental and economic. Sustainable enterprise management can be understood as a decision-making process looking to simultaneously achieve goals on these three dimensions. Among them, this project intends to present a formal methodology to measure only the environmental impact of operational decisions when natural disasters affect the defined synergy of supply chains. Our focus is on globalized supply chain networks for manufacturing of goods. These are prone to high levels of turbulence and uncertainty since the customer order fulfilment process is no longer controlled by a single integrated organization, but by a number of decentralized and independent firms collaborating together: this has contributed to enhanced risks and vulnerabilities in the supply chain. The research will use conceptualization and theoretical modelling, and a mix-method approach of combining quantitative techniques (optimization, computer simulation) with qualitative techniques (interviews/questionnaires in case studies) involving real-world organizations. This proposal is unique in that it focuses on developing a combined measure of sustainable responsive performance within a global supply chain context.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › physical geography › natural disasters
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › mathematical model

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IIF - International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

• EU contribution: € 278 807,40
• Address: WOODHOUSE LANE ; LS2 9JT Leeds ; United Kingdom
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Martin Hamilton (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data