Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish guidance for redesigning company infrastructure and technologies to achieve these benefits.

This book includes expert coverage of both business and technical issues making it ideal for practitioners, decision makers and students. It also covers comprehensive case studies focusing on managing issues ranging from inventory management to supply chain innovation and the lean use of 3PLs, IT, forecasting, business intelligence and carbon tracking.