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About Us
The George Weston Ltd. Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains aims to become a leading hub for management education, applied research, and industry collaboration at the Schulich School of Business.
Launched in May 2021, the goal of the Centre is to bring together diverse stakeholders to explore how best to create and secure supply chains facing major challenges such as climate change, digital transformation, supply disruptions, and the need for greater social inclusion.
The Centre is made possible through a gift from George Weston Ltd. and is a recognized Centre of Excellence at the Schulich School of Business.
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What are Sustainable Supply Chains?
Historically, organizations have been focused on maximizing only the financial performance that can be extracted from managing the relationships between who they directly buy from and sell to. When product flowed money also flowed. From farms and mines to factories and mills, warehouses and distribution centres to stores and your front door. Along the way, networks of planes, boats, trains, and ships kept everything moving quickly and efficiently. While this has been good for profits, at least in the short term, it has not always been good for a safe and healthy workplace, community, and natural environment needed to do business in the long run.
Sustainable supply chain management attempts to achieve the balance of a triple bottom line for individual organizations and a livable planet for all. It acknowledges that talent and resources are finite and that they should not be wasted. That cooperation is the path to resolving conflicts and hard trade-offs between stakeholders. And, transparency provides opportunities for solutions to major issues like climate change, equality of opportunity and security of supply. Sustainable supply chains are a work-in-progress requiring change leadership, a highly skilled workforce and not a small amount of courage to get the job done.
Click here to read our white paper on Our Journey to Sustainable Supply Chains.
What We Do
The Centre is driven by mutually reinforcing pillars of teaching and learning, research, and industry outreach.
Vision: To lead the change in making supply chains sustainable.
Mission: To help organizations design resilient supply chains that balance the long-term needs of people, planet, and profit.
Strategic Initiatives
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Research
Supporting, creating, and disseminating new pre-commercial applied and theoretical academic research related to supply chain management and sustainable supply chains.
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Education
Developing the next generation of responsible supply chain leaders though the development of supply chain management curricula, educational materials, and other resources to benefit public and for-profit management education.
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Industry Outreach
Building networks and supporting initiatives to encourage stakeholders amongst industry, government, and community organizations to take action on issues related to supply chain sustainability.
Leadership and Staff
David Johnston
Director, George Weston Ltd. Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains
Director, Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) Program
Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
Anthony Ferreira
Assistant Director, George Weston Ltd. Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains
Faculty Associates
Charles H. Cho
Professor of Sustainability Accounting; Erivan K. Haub Chair in Business & Sustainability
Henry M. Kim
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems; Co-Director, BlockchainLab
Moren Lévesque
Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems; CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship; Co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies
Divinus Oppong-Tawiah
Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
M. Johnny Rungtusanatham
Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Management (Tier 1); Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems; Area Coordinator, Operations Management and Information Systems
Abi Sriharan
Research Director and Senior Scientist, Krembil Centre for Health Management and Leadership
Julian Scott Yeomans
Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
Research Assistants
Sunny (Huiqing) Tian
PH.D. Research Assistant (2023)
PH.D. Candidate
Mara George
Research Assistant (2023)
MSCM '23 Candidate
Educational Partners
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Contact Us
George Weston Ltd. Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains
Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building, Room G230,
Schulich School of Business, York University,
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Email: gwlscc@schulich.yorku.ca
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