Decarbonizing Value Chains Proceedings of the 20th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM 2024), October 9–11, 2024, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 20th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on October 9–11, 2024, in Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With a focus on sustainable manufacturing strategies for decarbonizing supply chains, the chapters selected for this book report on models applied to, and results achieved in the mobility, energy, and construction sector, covering both aspects of digitalization and the combined application of circular economy and artificial intelligence. Moreover, they discuss energy-efficient process, reassembly and reuse, and CO2 neutral production, giving a special emphasis to developing sustainable manufacturing in South-East Asia. This book offers extensive and timely information for both researchers and professionals in the field of manufacturing and business development.

Navigating the Circular Economy A Practical Step by Step Approach for Business Model Transformation.- Network Capabilities for the Strategic Design of Sustainable Production Networks.- Bridging the Gap Enhancing Industry 4 0 Readiness in Low Resource Microenterprises through Open Source Technologies.- The Impact of Digitalization and Sustainability on the Resilience of Small and Medium Enterprises.- Enhancing Sustainability Strategic Choices from and for small and medium sized Enterprises.- Beyond Compliance Towards Automated Double Materiality Analysis under the CSRD Framework.- Automating EU Taxonomy Reporting Can Generative AI facilitate Corporate Sustainability Reporting.