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A Car in Three Days! Environmental Impacts of the Automotive Supply Chain

In: Towards an Environment Research Agenda

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  • Joe Miemczyk

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Summary This chapter discusses the trend in the automotive industry to reduce lead-times and build to customer orders, and how this may impact on the environmental aspects of the automotive supply chain. It argues that more responsive operations and supply chain processes can have a negative impact on the environment, owing to current operations strategies. The main areas of concern are vehicle delivery, car body painting, component delivery and high-risk supplier processes. The chapter goes on to describe how mitigating factors can reduce these impacts and can have a positive impact on operations’ costs. This trend of responsiveness is common across many industries and unless mitigating factors are introduced collaboratively and early on across the value chain, the impacts on society may be considerable.

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  • Joe Miemczyk, 2004. "A Car in Three Days! Environmental Impacts of the Automotive Supply Chain," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adrian Winnett (ed.), Towards an Environment Research Agenda, chapter 10, pages 235-255, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-55442-9_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230554429_10
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