Traditionally logistics and supply chain performance measures have been quantitative and based on measuring cost time and accuracy.
Gunasekaran and Kobu identified almost 90 logistics and supply chain metrics many of which overlap.
The most widely used were financial but 60 per cent of all measures were functionally based
The proliferation of logistics and supply chain measures is a symptom of how supply chains are managed. Supply chains are complex structures and as a consequence practitioners have created numerous metrics to manage them often duplicationg the same metrics within and across supply chain nodes or sites.
Sustainable supply chain performance measures have focused on greenhouse gas emissions due to the importance attached to them in the fight against climate change that has developed from a historical perspective as discussed in Chapter.
To wit the 1997 kyotyo agreement legally bound industrialized nations to reduce ghg emissions particularly co2 by an average of 5.2 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012.
The UK Deparment for environment food and Fural Affairs or Dfra identified 22 sustainability performance indicators in four key categories that are considered to be significant to UK businesses emissions to air emissions to water emissions to land and natural resource use.
To help manage these four categories firms can adopt an environmental management system EMS.