Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory - SPIL, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT Brno, Technická 2896/2, 61669 Brno, Czech Republic.
Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
J Environ Manage. 2019 Jun 1;239:38-47. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.023. Epub 2019 Mar 14.
Inaccessible hygiene water sources and sanitation are one of the sustainability issues that need to be solved. An attempt to solve this problem is to change the conventional system used in the water supply and sewage treatment to sustainable water and waste management. To transform the system, companies initially need to map their business value chain. However, this process is often not receiving a full attention by the organisation. In an academic perspective, there are limited studies that map the value chains of water and waste systems. To overcome this limitation, the present study aims to map the value chain processes of the water and wastewater utility companies towards a sustainability solution. A review of related studies is used to conduct this study. Khuzestan Urban Water and Sewage company in Iran has been selected as case studies. The mapping results indicate a lack of sustainability integration in a water management system that leads to ineffective and inefficient water management. Value chain mapping process is significant for practitioners, particularly in the water and sewage companies, as a starting point for transforming their conventional water management systems towards sustainability. Experts at the company stated that value chain mapping as part of value chain analysis enables organisations to increase operational efficiency and eliminate waste by 57%.
难以接近的卫生水源和卫生设施是需要解决的可持续性问题之一。解决这个问题的一种尝试是将供水和污水处理中使用的传统系统转变为可持续的水和废物管理系统。为了实现系统的转变，公司最初需要对其业务价值链进行规划。然而，这个过程往往没有得到组织的充分关注。从学术角度来看，很少有研究对水和废物系统的价值链进行规划。为了克服这一局限性，本研究旨在对供水和废水处理公司的价值链流程进行规划，以寻求可持续性解决方案。这项研究使用了相关研究的综述。伊朗胡齐斯坦省城市供水和污水处理公司被选为案例研究。绘图结果表明，水管理系统缺乏可持续性整合，导致水管理效率低下。价值链绘图过程对从业者具有重要意义，特别是对供水和污水处理公司而言，这是将其传统水管理系统向可持续性转变的起点。该公司的专家表示，价值链绘图作为价值链分析的一部分，可以使组织提高运营效率，并将浪费减少 57%。
