Sustainability has become a huge buzzword, both in today’s business world and within the broader facets of society. So say Craig R Carter and P Liane Easton in their 2011 article Sustainable supply chain management: evolution and future directions. Here they conduct a systematic review of the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) literature in the principal logistics and supply chain management journals, across a 20-year time frame. They discover that SSCM has evolved from a perspective and investigation of standalone research in social and environmental areas, through a corporate social responsibility perspective, and towards a convergence of perspectives of sustainability as the triple bottom line. What I found interesting is how supply chain risk management and contingency planning links up with sustainable supply chains.

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