＂Supply chain management is a cross-functional business concept that includes, for example, logistics and operations management. For too long business has focused on short-term cost advantages
through low-cost country sourcing with little regard for the longer-term implications of global sustainability. In many organizations purchasing is now part of the supply chain management
function, however, a company is no more sustainable than the suppliers it sources from, which means that a wealth of research isemerging that connects sustainability, purchasing and supply
chain management. Purchasing and Supply Chain Management provides a comprehensive guide to the environmental, social and economic challenges of how companies manage purchasing and supply
chain.This text aims to inspire the development of current and future purchasing and supply chain leaders and evaluates how to develop strategic and sustainable purchasing and supply chain
management. Although there are a number of supply chain management textbooks available, those which cover sustainability at all do so with ＂bolt-on＂ chapters - an approach which fails to
integrate the key issues. Aimed at students, educators and practitioners the book integrates sustainability into each chapter as a core element of purchasing and supply chain management, and it
does so through integrating theory with practice while drawing on relevant industry case studies＂--
