A Literature Review on Sustainable Supply chain Management and its Impact on Sustainable Performance

With sustainability, companies have begun to focus more and more on purchasing and manufacturing products and services in ways that reduce their impact on the environment, society, and the economy. That's why sustainable supply chain management has attracted a significant attention and interest among managers, academics, and practitioners. This paper aims to provide a literature review on the field of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) starting with defining the concept of SSCM followed by its dimensions, its practices, and its impact on sustainable performance. This review paper presents some definitions, but we trust that the most novel definitions of sustainable supply chain tend to cover the three pillars of sustainability. The literature has brought a lot of practices that we tried to classify them into two categories: environmental practices (green purchasing, eco-design…) and social practices (safety, healthcare, ethics…) in supply chain. Regarding the impact of SSCM on sustainable performance, we first summarized the relevant literature and detected gaps on this issue. In fact, the question of outcomes that the companies can have after implementing SSCM practices still needs to be studied because the literature has not been decisive which requires more investigations in this area.