Abstract:
After the World War II, global businesses have been grown incredibly. Parallel to this
remarkable growth, human needs and wants have also been expanded. These needs
and wants are based on goods and services. Since organizations particularly
manufacturing firms seek to minimize the cost and maximize the income (profit)
through their supply chain processes, environmental (planet) and social (people)
obligations have been neglected either by directly or by indirectly. However the
Sustainability is practices and development that meet the needs of the current
generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs. Therefore, Principal aim of the sustainability in supply chain (SSC) is to
achieve economic prosperity, environmental cleanness, and societal well-being (or
optimization of Triple Bottom Line) simultaneously along the supply chain. This
study reviews literature to scrutinize the research efforts make on optimization of
Triple Bottom Line (TBL) i.e. economic, environmental, and social dimensions for
achieving SSC. Content analysis was carried out using reviewed most relevant 41
journal articles published in emerald, and Science Direct websites on Sustainable
Supply Chain Management and on TBL issues to categorize the research efforts done
on the area of SSC. The study found that more studies were carried out related to
green or environmental-friendly supply chains and studies focus on social dimension
are lacking. However, very few studies have been carried out on optimization of TBL
for the purpose of achieving SSC. Therefore, future researches concentrating on social
factor and on whole three dimensions are deemed necessary to be carried out.
