In the last decades, green and sustainable supply chain management practices have been developed, trying to integrate environmental concerns into organisations by reducing unintended negative consequences on the environment of production and consumption processes. In parallel to this, the circular economy discourse has been propagated in the industrial ecology literature and practice. Circular economy pushes the frontiers of environmental sustainability by emphasising the idea of transforming products in such a way that there are workable relationships between ecological systems and economic growth. Therefore, circular economy is not just concerned with the reduction of the use of the environment as a sink for residuals but rather with the creation of self-sustaining production systems in which materials are used over and over again.

Through two case studies from different process industries (chemical and food), this paper compares the performances of traditional and circular production systems across a range of indicators. Direct, indirect and total lifecycle emissions, waste recovered, virgin resources use, as well as carbon maps (which provide a holistic visibility of the entire supply chain) are presented. The paper asserts that an integration of circular economy principles within sustainable supply chain management can provide clear advantages from an environmental point view. Emerging supply chain management challenges and market dynamics are also highlighted and discussed.

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Sustainable supply chain management and the transition towards a circular economy: Evidence and some applications $

Industrial Product-Service Systems—IPS2

https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/13123/3/Fulltext.pdf

Evolution of design for sustainability: From product design to design for system innovations and transitions

Sustainability aims at addressing environmental and socio-economic issues in the long term. In general, the literature on sustainability has focused mainly on the environmental issues, whereas, more recently, a Circular Economy has been proposed as one of the latest concepts for addressing both the environmental and socio-economic issues. A Circular Economy aims at transforming waste into resources and on bridging production and consumption activities; however, there is still limited research focusing on these aspects. This paper addresses the link between procurement and supply practices, and proposes changing from a traditional public procurement process, based on product-selling business models, to a more service-oriented system. The paper proposes a framework to include technical and non-technical specifications of product/service combinations that improve resource usage efficiency through recovery. The framework also considers socio-cultural specifications and physical and social proximity between the stakeholders in the procurement process. The framework is based on collaboration, which is a vital link between the public procurement process and the development of more sustainable business models, where the experience gained in the collaboration process serves as the bases for suppliers and procurers in improving their contribution to CE, whilst at the same time securing economic benefits for both parties. Although, in this process, the specification setting may take longer, the relationships between procurer and supplier tend to be longer lasting and stronger. This research shows that collaboration between procurers and suppliers throughout the procurement process can lead to reductions in raw material utilisation and waste generation, whilst promoting the development of new, more sustainable, business models.

Towards a more Circular Economy: Proposing a framework linking sustainable public procurement and sustainable business models

Product-Service Systems Engineering: State of the art and research challenges

For the development of industrial Product-Service Systems (PSS, IPS2) generic development process models are hardly available. The definition of a generic IPS2 development process model is one aim of our research on PSS and IPS2. In our article, we elaborate on a generic process model for PSS and IPS2 development, which is part of a PSS development methodology. The process model bases on theory and empirical findings. An interview study has been undertaken to compare as-is processes in German industry in 2009 in order to compile the new, generic PSS development process model.

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A generic pss development process model based on theory and an empirical study

Framed by Product-Service Systems (PSS), this paper discuss how needs and requirements are applied in early phases. In product development literature these and closely related terms are mixed, and a focus on gathering customer information about goods and their use guides the development team. This theoretical study highlights that lifecycle commitments such as PSS insist on the generation of a broader information basis. The application of a divergent view on goods, their use and the customers is likely to provide such information basis. The discussion provides a proposal of a simple model to set needs and requirements in relation.

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Product-Service Systems - From Customer Needs to Requirements in Early Development Phases

Product analysis automation for digital MRO based on intelligent 3D data acquisition

Industrial solutions integrating products and services are common practice in many business-to-business applications and branches. An explicit integrated planning, development, delivery and use of products and services, which is important for so-called industrial product-service systems (IPS 2 ), is hardly implemented. Thus, a need and potential for enhancement of IPS 2 design is driving our research. In our contribution we will present a new guideline to elicit and analyze requirements on IPS 2 properties and quality. The guideline is based on a comprehensive review of product development, service engineering and IT literature. It contains a new checklist of clustered criteria to retrieve and describe IPS 2 requirements systematically and it supports different design views. The guideline is compatible with known approaches as for instance guidelines presented by Pahl et al., van Husen, Steinbach or CobiT/ITIL. Within the paper we discuss reviewed references and present the guideline and the entire checklist.

https://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/077/014/ecp10077014.pdf

Guideline to elicit requirements on industrial product-service systems

Research on Product-Service Systems (PSS) has been carried out for many years and in various disciplines. Nevertheless, design guidelines and standards for industrial application are hardly available. Even a standardized terminology has not yet been developed. Consolidation of PSS approaches among research projects and industrial branches is rudimentary. This is an obstacle for companies to incorporate and deploy PSS design approaches and to introduce efficient work or communication processes with customers and suppliers. Meanwhile, standardization on PSS design is “moving into” research agendas. This paper is based on literature analysis, experience in industrially applied research, and standardization practice of the authors. The contribution elaborates on various viewpoints and frequently raised issues in PSS research, which are important in order to consolidate PSS design approaches.

https://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/077/028/ecp10077028.pdf

Towards Consolidation on Product-Service Systems Design

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