Designing a Sustainable Supply Chain Model with an Emphasis on Behavioural Factors for Foodstuffs in Kermanshah Province

In the last two decades, many researches about the sustainable supply chain have focused mainly on its environmental aspect. Environment is one of the key elements of the threefold sustainability policy and an intermediary for topics such as climate change and increased energy. To some extent, the terms "environment" and "sustainability" have been used interchangeably by researchers and managers. This misunderstanding has been very common especially in recent years. The environment, although at the beginning was a prospect for the start of the sustainable supply chain, then an identical concept and application of the term sustainability as the threefold policy (economy, environment, and community) emerged which is now expanding. The purpose of this research is to design a sustainable supply chain model with an emphasis on behavioral factors for foodstuff in Kermanshah province. This is an applied research. The literature review is based on library study such as books, journals, dissertations, articles, and so on. Data were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed by statistical methods. Regarding the subject of this research, the study population consists of managers and staff associated with the supply chain in Kermanshah food companies, involving 100 people. Structural equation modeling and PLS software were used to turn out analyzed data to the training environment, innovation, motivation, staff empowering, mutual trust and respect information. Teamwork had a positive and significant effect on the sustainable supply chain which estimated by environmental, social and economic indicators.