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What is Sustainable Value Stream Mapping

Chapter 18
Handbook of Research on Green Economic Development Initiatives and Strategies
A corporate sustainability management tool in which the value stream of a product line, product family line or whole supply chain is drawn and evaluated according to some metrics (economical, environmental and societal metrics) in order to make improvements in sustainability performance of organization.
Published in Chapter:
How to Manage Sustainability: A Framework for Corporate Sustainability Tools
Yasemin Sen (Istanbul University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0440-5.ch018
Abstract
Sustainability has increasingly become a critical issue for wellbeing of human life and maintaining sustainability is responsibility of many parties such as individuals, corporations or governments. When taking its social, economical, or environmental impacts into consideration, maybe the most important player in that arena is organizations and in order to take the necessary actions about sustainability, first of all a common understanding of the topic is needed. For this reason, in this chapter it is aimed to create awareness about sustainability issue and commonly used tools for management of it. In this context, definition of sustainability and four corporate sustainability management tools (Environmental Management System - EMS, Sustainable Value Stream Mapping - Sus-VSM, Total Quality Environmental Management - TQEM and Sustainable Balanced Score Card - SBSC) have been explained.
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