International audienceToday’s organizations should account for sustainabilityconcepts, metrics, and approaches that target thedevelopment of successful and profitable global supplychain networks. This important tenet in the academicand industrial environment was the motivationfor this special issue of Supply Chain Forum: AnInternational Journal. The objective of this specialissue is to present the most up-to-date research insustainability trends by identifying suitable metricsand approaches in supply chain environments froma variety of industries – services and manufacturing –that concern academic and industrial communities