Product characteristics affecting sustainablility

Much has been written and researched about the need for infusing sustainability in procurement , logistics and supply chain process. There is a common understanding and agreement about the increasing importance of sustainability for companies. However challenges like economic viability of being sustainable and availability of hands on tools for creating sustainability in organisational and functional processes remain.

This is an attempt to create tool for purchasing managers to identify sustainability based on the product characteristics. It includes characteristics like obsolocene risk and demand volatility which increases supply chain wastage, ease of disassembly/salvage, value density, packagability and product nature in terms of hazardous nature of product. The picture does not consider social and economic aspects of sustainability which needs to be infused in further development.