抄録
With the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, our daily life notices that supply chains are so important and fragile and that there are still challenges how to harmonize and visualize the environmental issues and the supply chains. One of the reasons is that products with manufacturing by the supply chains inevitably consume natural resources for materials and energy and put out CO_2 throughout their whole product lifecycle. Therefore, closed-loop and low carbon supply chains should be designed environmentally and economically. This paper overviews the environmental issues and supply chains with the product lifecycle, and discusses the designs and challenges in the closed-loop and the low carbon supply chains for sustainability.
