Green Supply Chain Management
Course facts
- Payment: Free, no certificate
- Credits: Non Credit
- Learning style: Self-paced, start anytime
- Resources: Instructor Insights; Lecture Notes; Lecture Videos; Problem Sets; Projects
- Before you start: Graduate level courses in operations management, logistics design and / or supply chain management preferred.
MIT OpenCourseWare details
- As taught in: Spring 2014
- Department: Engineering Systems Division
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Designing sustainable supply chains: reverse logistics, carbon footprinting, life cycle analysis and strategy, with lecture videos and company cases.
What happens to a product after it is sold, and how much carbon did it take to deliver? This half-semester graduate class teaches the strategies, tools and techniques for analyzing and designing environmentally sustainable supply chains. Sessions combine presentations, case discussions and invited speakers, while teams critically evaluate the strategy of an industry or company.
What You Will Achieve
- Analyze closed-loop supply chains and reverse logistics
- Calculate a carbon footprint in a case worksheet
- Critique a life cycle assessment for bias
- Evaluate a company’s environmental supply chain strategy
Program Overview
Closing the Loop
What happens after products are used.
- Introduction to green supply chains
- Reverse logistics
- The ReCellular and Whirlpool cases
Measuring Impact
Tools for quantifying footprint.
- Carbon footprinting
- Life cycle analysis
- A review of a hand drying study
Strategy and Stakeholders
Working with others on change.
- Multi-stakeholder engagements
- The palm oil case study
- International regulations and the case of mercury
- Green supply chain strategy
Course Completion
Job Outlook
These skills are relevant to sustainability management, supply chain strategy, consulting and environmental policy.
Good for: Graduate students and supply chain managers who want practical tools and real company cases for making operations greener.
Keep in mind: Only a selection of lectures is recorded, and a third of the sessions were guest speakers who mostly do not appear here. Team project feedback was central and is not available alone.
Bottom line: A practical, case-rich introduction with useful videos and teaching notes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the team project involve?
Teams critically evaluate the environmental supply chain strategy of an industry or a publicly traded company, through several short deliverables, a critical analysis paper and a final presentation.
Where do the case studies come from?
They reflect over five years of research at a transportation and logistics center, working with companies trying to carry out sustainability initiatives.
How was the class graded?
The team project paper counted for 50 percent, its final presentation for 15, case studies and assignments for 20, and class participation for 15.
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