The sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) literature has grown alongside the dominant discourse that economic, environmental, and social sustainability can be simultaneously achieved through practices that legitimize a win–win business case, with a focus on the potential contributions to the triple bottom line.
Stage | Risk Factor | Description |
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Farmer | Land Degradation | Farmland can become less sustainable over the long term due to soil erosion, deforestation, and excessive pesticide usage. |
Climate Change | Climate change: The production and quality of milk can be impacted by more unpredictable weather patterns, such as droughts or floods. | |
Animal Health | Infections and diseases that affect dairy animals might spread, resulting in lower productivity and more frequent usage of antibiotics. | |
Milk Collection and Processing: | Energy Use | Poor methods for gathering and processing milk can result in higher energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. |
Water Usage | During the production of milk, inefficient water management and excessive water use can put pressure on the local water supply. | |
Food Safety | Mishandling or contamination of milk during collection and processing can endanger consumer health and tarnish the dairy industry’s reputation. | |
Packaging and Transportation: | Packaging Waste | Packaging waste, such as plastic containers improperly disposed of, can cause environmental damage. |
Carbon Footprint | Excessive long-distance shipping and ineffective transportation operations can raise greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. | |
Supply Chain Transparency | It may be challenging to maintain ethical and sustainable practices throughout the supply chain in the absence of traceability and monitoring tools. | |
Consumer and Retail: | Food Waste: | Dairy products that are improperly handled, stored, or that have expired can produce a lot of food waste. |
Consumer Awareness | Consumer demand for sustainable goods may be impacted by consumers’ ignorance or indifference to sustainable dairy producing processes. | |
Pricing Pressure | Market dynamics and price pressures may force businesses to slash costs in ways that undermine sustainability initiatives. |
Performance Indicators PIs | Description | Source |
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Effective business and operations (EBO) | Business effectiveness and operations play a significant role in achieving a balance among the sustainable triple bottom-line approach. Optimal business operations help the environment, society, and economy. | [44] |
Use of Quality standards and HACCP (UQS) | The use of high-quality standards and HACCP standards in the food system helps to lower food wastage along with high satisfaction to the consumer. | [22] |
Green supplier (GSR) | The selection of green suppliers is a crucial step in reaching the objective of sustainable development since it helps to minimize emissions from the very beginning of the supply chain. | [45] |
Cold chain effectiveness (CCE) | The efficacy of the cold chain plays a vital role in the supply chain for dairy products since it gives the product longer shelf life, ensures optimum emissions from refrigerated vehicles, and reduces waste of transportation. | [22] |
Responsiveness to customer demand (RCD) | Responsiveness to customer demand helps to create long-lasting relationships with customers, timely delivery of a product, and an increase in demand. | [45] |
Use of Technology (UOT) | The dairy industry has recently realized the importance of applying technology to automate production, maintain hygienic standards, fulfil orders from customers, deliver products on time, and monitor emissions in real time. | [22][45] |
Waste management (WMT) | Waste management metrics measure how well SC’s waste management practices dispose of hazardous and chemical waste for SCP, aiding in the achievement of SDG 12.4. | [22] |
Research and development (RND) | Nowadays, sustainable growth is absolutely necessary inside the company to produce an eco-friendly product to maintain our ecosystem by reducing environmental effects and harmful food ingredients, so research and development will play a significant role. | [22][45] |
Average supply chain cost (ASC) | Total supply chain costs are the leading indicator of any supply chain performance. Various costs are associated with the supply chain cost, such as procurement cost, holding cost, shortage cost, and transportation cost. Need to use sustainable procurement and transportation network. | [46] |
Capacity utilization rate (CUR) | Proper use of the company’s warehouse, shop floor, delivery vans, and other facilities within the firm is important. | [46] |
Traceability (TRA) | Traceability is a cutting-edge technology that is often used for monitoring and tracking to improve product security and safety. It allows the consumer to track their order details and delivery of the product. | [45] |
GHG emission (GHG) | By calculating equivalent carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions are the key indicator for monitoring and mitigating environmental damage. | [22] |
Gender equity (GEQ) | Gender equity in the business organization is recommended to take advantage of experience from a diverse set of people. With gender equity, a firm’s social performance is improved. | [45] |
Employment generation (EGR) | Employment generation is an important social measurement that is used to assess a firm’s social performance based on its ability to generate employment. | [22] |
Utilization of modern environment management system (MEM) | Another strategy for tracking and managing the environmental impact/emissions generated by the firm is to use a modern environment management system. The MEM system enables real-time monitoring of the firm’s environmental emissions, which can then be readily managed and used to develop reduction strategies to improve environmental performance. | [46] |
Utilization of green and recycled material (GER) | The use of green and recyclable materials in the dairy industry, particularly packaging materials, helps to reduce waste and GHG emissions, hence improving environmental performance. | [46] |
Share of renewable energy (SRE) | The utilization of renewable energy in the dairy firm is important to lower GHG emissions. | [22] |
Profit sharing (PSH) | Profit sharing among farmers and suppliers is a key factor in improving the social performance of the dairy business. Because the dairy sector is so reliant on farmers and vice versa, maximal profit sharing is critical to improving social performance. | [22] |
Revenue growth (REG) | Continuous revenue expansion is also an important component of dairy enterprises in order to increase economic performance. | [22] |
This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/su151511555