scholarly journals THE DRIVERS AND BARRIERS OF GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION: A REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Ali Hebaz ◽  
Salah Oulfarsi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Environmental Management Strategies ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Initial Processing

Due to environmental degradation such as climate change, increased CO2 and GHG emission and all other problems threatening the world and its existence. Firms now are forced to think about integrating environmental thinking into their business operations in order to satisfy their stakeholders. Therefore, several organizations start developing environmental management strategies such as green practices overall their business operations, and since the supply chain concerns the product from its initial processing of raw material until the delivery to the customer there has been an emergency to integrate environmental thinking within this function. This paper aims to review the literature on the drivers and barriers influencing GSCM implementation. A total of 60 elements that englobe 28 drivers, and 32 barriers were identified from the selected literature where only the highest weightage factors are discussed. As results, Financial and cost related factors, Customers and Regulatory related factors seemed to behave simultaneously in both directions.

Green Practices in Supply Chain Management to Improve Sustainable Performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-71
Author(s):  
Rebeca B. Sánchez-Flores ◽  
Samantha E. Cruz-Sotelo ◽  
Sara Ojeda-Benitez
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Green Practices

This chapter presents an overview of current research on green practices said to improve global supply chain performance by driving the discussion into four main processes: sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and customer service. Authors present the importance of sustainable development in supply chain management from environmental and green perspectives. The chapter undertakes a literature review on supply chain management, sustainable performance, and green supply chain. It continues with a discussion of green supply chain practices from different functions' perspectives, as strategic sustainable performance improvement and as a source of competitive advantage for business operations throughout the supply chain. Finally, this chapter identifies research gaps, discusses potential research directions for green supply chain management, and provides recommendations to expand on research to address the shortcomings of the existing literature.

The Influencing Factors Analysis of Implementing Green Supply Chain Based on the Investigation Data in Shandong Province of China

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 3049-3054
Author(s):  
Cao Qian ◽  
Xi Jian Quan ◽  
Yu Yan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Factors Analysis

On the basis of investigation and research, we firstly determined factors that impact manufacturing enterprises to implement green supply chain. Then, based on data of Parts of manufacturing enterprises in Shandong Province implementing green supply chain, the influencing factors of manufacturing enterprises implementing green supply chain is analyzed by factor analysis. The conclusion show that the influencing factors mainly concentrates in seven aspects that is raw material purchase, the enterprise internal management, the worn recycling, the product design, the enterprise prestige, the enterprise energy consumption, the reject processes.

Modeling the barriers of green supply chain management in small and medium enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1110-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhijit Majumdar ◽  
Sanjib Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Medium Enterprises

PurposeSmall and medium enterprises (SMEs) of Indian clothing industry have become one of the most important cogs of global fashion supply chain. However, the implementation of green practices is still in the nascent stage. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the important barriers of green supply chain management in Indian clothing SMEs.Design/methodology/approachA total of 36 barriers related to green supply chain management (GSCM) practices were identified through exhaustive literature review. Then ten important barriers were shortlisted through questionnaire survey among supply chain practitioners using five-point Likert scale. Finally, interpretive structural modeling technique was used to decipher the contextual relationships among these barriers.FindingsComplexity of green process and system design and lack of support from regulatory authorities were found to be the barriers having the maximum driving power. Lack of consumer support and high investment and low economic benefits were also found to be important barriers in the way of green practices implementation in clothing SMEs. In contrast, lack of reward systems for suppliers, uncertainty of green outcome, lack of green materials, process and technology and lack of flexibility to switch over to green system were the dependent barriers.Originality/valueThe important barriers of GSCM practices in Indian clothing SMEs have been identified and analyzed. The finding will be helpful in making the Indian clothing SMEs environmentally sustainable by eliminating the important barriers.

Green Supply Chain Management Theory and Practices

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-141
Author(s):  
Bülent Sezen ◽  
Sibel Yildiz Çankaya
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Green It ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Material Procurement ◽  
Product Disposal

Increases in environmental problems require companies to be more aware towards the environment and take precautions regarding the problems. As a result, companies have started to embrace the concept of green supply chain which includes environmental issues rather than the concept of supply chain which is based on profitability. Green supply chain (GSC) has emerged as an important component of the environmental and supply chain strategies. In order to make a supply chain green, it is necessary to consider all activities in the supply chain such as raw material procurement, inbound logistics, transformation, outbound logistics, marketing, after-sales and appropriate product disposal. This paper aims to review different GSCM dimensions in the literature by explaining green supply chain concept and address the activities/practises that can be used to ensure these dimensions are green.

Analysis of the Barriers to Green Supply Chain Management Implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 202-218
Author(s):  
Merve Eser ◽  
Gülay İrak
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
High Investment

The statistical analysis of the data obtained by the survey method was performed with SPSS 22.0 program. According to the findings of the research, the most important barriers in the implementation of green supply chain management are green projects with high investment costs in construction, changing facilities and equipment, as well as the international crisis and economic downturn. These barriers are raw material costs are higher in green applications, green projects having high operating costs, and high prices in green applications unable to compete with lower prices of competitors, respectively. Another finding of the study is that there is no significant difference between the implementation status of the green projects and the duration of the export activity on the barriers encountered in the implementation of GSCM.

Multifaceted Applications of Green Supply Chain Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 327-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Green Supply Chain Management ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Chain Management

This chapter aims to explain the overview of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM); the significant activities of GSCM; GSCM and collaboration; GSCM and environmental management; GSCM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and the multifaceted applications of GSCM. Green supply chain is capable of increasing corporate value while considering its impacts on all processes of physical distribution, production, and environment. Managing a green supply chain is about finding the balance between economic and environmental benefits in global supply chain. GSCM recognizes the disproportionate environmental impact of supply chain processes in an organization. GSCM practices can manifest themselves from the process of selecting raw material to final consumption based on the aspects of reduction, reuse, recycling, and recovery. The chapter argues that the multifaceted applications of GSCM have the potential to enhance organizational performance and gain sustainable competitive advantage in global supply chain.

Blockchain Characteristics and Green Supply Chain Advancement

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahtab Kouhizadeh ◽  
Joseph Sarkis
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Exemplary Practices ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Focal Company

Blockchain is an emerging technology that has been widely hyped for addressing many business issues. Blockchain's disruptive technological capabilities have the potential to revolutionize global supply chain management processes, and impact green supply chain initiatives. Blockchain technology incorporates four major characteristics: transparency, reliability, smart execution, and tokenization. Blockchain characteristics have implications for green practices in the upstream supply chain, focal company, and downstream supply chain. This chapter provides insights, exemplary practices, and use cases on how blockchain features can enhance green supply chain activities. Research concerns and directions are proposed to advance the discussion and research on this emergent field.

scholarly journals Integrating Green Practices into Operational Performance: Evidence from Brazilian Manufacturers

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Santos ◽  
Gustavo Lannelongue ◽  
Javier Gonzalez-Benito
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
The Impact

The pressures exerted by the market, society, regulators and/or clients on organisational environmental responsibility have required companies to adopt environmental management practices. Within this process, integration with suppliers and customers is important to enable companies to meet these demands, and at the same time achieve their organisational goals. Using empirical results from 117 respondents on Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices among Brazilian manufacturers, we examined the impact of the adoption of green practices on operational performance. To do so, we developed a questionnaire to collect the variables on environmental practices and operational performance in manufacturing firms in Brazil, an emerging economy in which this sector accounts for 25% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The results show that the adoption of GSCM between suppliers and/or customers has a positive effect on operational performance. This means companies can benefit from a green supply chain by cooperating with upstream suppliers of environmentally responsible production technology and by exchanging environmental information with them, as well as considering the views of customers and green consumers in their production processes. This study provides empirical support for managers promoting environmental practices that may lead to operational performance and sustainable growth.

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