Planning Framework

Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action The Chemical Industry, Edited by B. Beloff, M. Lines, and D. Tanzil 

In the Framework, the lenses represent variables that affect the way in which the sustainability issues are further characterized and the boundary conditions that are set. Depending on the enterprise, there may be more lenses than shown in 

TABLE 4.1. Identifying the Important Aspects of Sustainability in a Company 

Resources Material intensity Energy intensity Water usage Land use 

Pollutants Waste Wasted resources Releases to air, water, and land Material recycling Impacts on human health Impacts on ecosystem and biodiversity 

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Value chain planning requirements are structured along the value chain and value chain planning framework. Requirements are presented in requirements packages and numbered from R1 to R13 across the value chain areas. 

Planning a global value chain on a monthly basis is based on the value chain planning framework introduced in chapter 2 and shown again as an excerpt in fig. 43... 

The planning framework defines core structures in planning to support the decision of planning volumes and values on the tactical level as intermediate layer between strategy and operations as formulated in the planning process requirements in 0. 

The planning framework consists of planning bucket, granularity, horizon and frequency. Characteristics and possible attributes of the global value chain planning problem are shown in table 20. 

A central element in the planning framework is the definition of planning objects and potential aggregation levels. Fig. 54 illustrates planning object hierarchies for prod that can be found in industry practice. 

Periods l e T are discrete planning buckets as defined in the planning framework. Default bucket is one month. The planner defines a starting period tj e T and an ending period tTeT. The number of period days and period hours ht, /te T is defined according to the calendar. 

The Planning for Sustainability section of this book offers a range of planning frameworks, from an elaboration on the elements to consider in planning for sustainability and steps to be taken, to broader conceptual frameworks regarding the systems in which business operates, what contributes to their unsustainability, and how to make the systems as well as the companies operating within them more sustainable. 

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