Environmental and Social Aspects of Supplier Relationship Management

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of significance of sustainable development in recent years, there have been many ideas regarding the practical application of environmental and social concepts in business management. Many of these concepts include the field of supply chain management, which is also a very evolutionary issue. One of the main areas of supply chain management is supplier relationship management. Our goal is to present environmental and social aspects of supplier relationship management taking into consideration individual approaches of specific researchers and to aggregate the gathered information. As a research tool, we used literature analysis, taking into account current works of researchers.

Keywords

• procurement
• supplier relationship management
• green supply chain
• sustainability
• sustainable development