Techshore
School of Logistics &
Supply Chain Management is an initiative of the leading
professional &
reputed training
brand of Techshore Inspection Services, which is having training centres all
over Kerala. Techshore, offers courses in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
from early 2015 and successful in providing placements for all those candidates
in reputed logistics companies with attractive salary packages and perks.
GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (GSCM)
Business activities can
pose a significant threat to the environment in terms of
carbon monoxide emissions,discarded packaging
materials, scrapped toxic materials,traffic congestion and
other forms of industrial pollution .Green supply chain management
(GSCM) is considered as an environmental
innovation. The concept of GSCM is to integrate environmental
thinking into supply chain management (SCM). GSCM
aims to minimize or eliminate wastages including
hazardous chemical, emissions, energy and solid waste along
supply chain such as product design,material resourcing and
selection, manufacturing process, delivery of final
product and end-of-life management of the products. As such, GSCM plays a vital role in influencing the total environment
impact of any firm involved in supply chain
activities and thus contributing to sustainability
performance enhancement.
GSCM is evolved from
SCM. As competition intensified in the 1990s, the increased
awareness of green practices has triggered firms to act
in an ethically and socially responsible manner in their supply
chains . In the beginning of 1995, GSCM has attracted
considerable scholarly interest; GSCM
received highest
attention in 2010 . With these practices in mind, firms develop environmental
management strategies in response to the changes
of environmental requirements and their impacts on supply
chain operations . A supply chain is a network consists of all parties involved (e.g. supplier,
manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, retailer,customer, etc.),
directly or indirectly, in producing and
delivery products or
services to ultimate customers – both in upstream and downstream
sides through physical distribution, flow of information and finances .
1) Green
management perspective
Van Hoek believed
a business should face up to environmental issues and create competitive
advantages through green initiatives. He used three approaches in green management:
reactive, proactive, and value-seeking. Noci initially involved the green
perspective in the supplier-selection process and divided corporate green
strategies into reactive and proactive types. The former requests that
suppliers only defer to regulators, while the latter expects suppliers to
assist in green-product development and to align with any environmental
requirements from the firm. Newman and Hanna showed four continuous stages of a
firm’s environmental awareness: (i) reactive, (ii) receptive, (iii)
constructive, and (iv) proactive.
2) Green
design
During the design stage, the new product
development (NPD) team usually determines the most essential material
selection, production procurement's, package design, and energy usage. These all
influence the primary costs and profits of the new product and affect its environmental
impact in each life-cycle phase .Considerations include
design-for-environment (DfE), eco-design, life-cycle design (LCD), or green
design ,Some environmentally-friendly firms also design for disassembly,
reuse, and recycling (DfDRR), because this “design for” concept not only
enables the product and its components to be easily reused, re manufactured, or
recycled at the end of its lifetime (EOF), but also helps to easily separate
and replace electronic parts with longer life expectancies.
3) Green
purchasing
Companies traditionally see the purchasing function as playing a
supportive role in achieving business objectives. However, many organizations
introducing green programs have observed that green purchasing significantly
eliminates waste, and therefore firms can re-evaluate the purchasing function
to improve green management performance. In other words, companies do perceive
the importance and strategic influences of green purchasing.
4) Green
manufacturing
As mentioned previously, green design outcomes affect sequential
stages across the entire supply chain, but they rely on green manufacturing
techniques and processes. Manufacturing processes consume a lot of energy
acquired from burning various natural resources, such as coal, coke and natural
gas, and combustion causes air pollution. Electronics technology generates a
large amount of waste. Previous green-manufacturing studies mainly discuss
enhancing current production processes or techniques to decrease the generation
of toxic matter.
5) Green
marketing and service
Consumers experience the effect of global warming and climate
change, and respond by re-evaluating what they buy. These “green consumers”
adjust their living habits and assess the green attributes of a product or
service through their purchases. For example, green consumers save electric
energy, recycle paper, return bottles or cans, and buy more
environmentally-friendly products.
6) Green
supply chain management strategy
Past studies have largely discussed and classified green
manufacturing strategies or environmental strategies according to attitudes
that companies hold toward green management. The simplest strategies are
proactive and reactive. After observing the ways that different industries
“green” their supply-chain activities and how developing supply-chain
relationships influences resources accumulation and varied performance
outcomes, Simpon and Samon proposed a broad range of strategies for GSCM.
Depending on the degree of resource commitment and the complexity, their
approach used risk-based strategy, efficiency-based strategy, innovation-based
strategy, and closed-loop strategy.
Conclusion
Sustainability
performance are two inextricably related SCM concepts. As noted earlier,
majority of studies have indeed reported a significant relationship between
these two constructs. However, there are some issues such as involving
collaboration with suppliers in designing green products and adopting
environmental practices into processes have yet to be researched fully. In view
of this matter, environmental collaboration has been proposed as a moderator of
the link between GSCM practices and sustainability performance in this paper.
The presence of the environmental collaboration is expected to facilitate GSCM
practices, which would ease the implementation of GSCM practices.
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