Production NW - Business analysis
Understanding the complex flows of materials, energy and value through the supply chain
Physical vs human flows
The key theme of this project looks at businesses, not only as economic units, but as part of a bigger picture
- Business as part of a physical supply chain, with resource flows from cradle to grave, and through the lifetime of their products.
- Business as part of a human activity chain, from investors, managers, workers, consumers and other parts of society
This toolkit concentrates on the first of these, but looking towards the second (for a future project). We use examples in italics to illustrate the concepts of business sustainability.
Note: the scheme is not finalized and still under development. Comments are welcome.
