Abstract
Environmental protection is becoming more and more important for enterprises because of stronger public awareness, competitors and communities, and government regulations. For this purpose, some programs have become more popular for raising environmental awareness including total quality environmental management and green supply chain management. Reducing the environmental pollution from upstream to downstream during procuring raw materials, producing, distribution, selling products, and products depreciation is the most important goal of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM). The main contribution of this study is introducing the main factors in green supply chain management that are very important in environmental attributes by providing an evaluation framework to select the most eligible green suppliers by examining the influential and important criteria and subcriteria among ten elements of two main GSCM practices, namely, green logistics and environmental protection. First, these factors are divided into two groups, that is, green logistics and environmental protection, and then by applying DEMATEL technique, the complex causal relationship between all factors dependencies and feedbacks among them is examined. Finally, by drawing the impact relationship map the most important and influential factors are determined for improving green supply chain environmental aspects.
Highlights
The emergence of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is one of the most significant environmental developments in the past decade, offering the opportunity for companies to align their supply chains in accordance with environmental and sustainability goals
This study proposes a causal model based on the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) methodologies to support green supply chain management strategic decisions and green supplier selection
Ranking Dimensions Based on Impact of Environmental Protection on Green Logistics In this step all factors are prioritized according to their power in sending impact or receiving effect to other factors
Summary
The emergence of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is one of the most significant environmental developments in the past decade, offering the opportunity for companies to align their supply chains in accordance with environmental and sustainability goals. One of the most obvious gaps by considering previous studies is lack of direct consideration to environmental protection and its aspects in proposed evaluation models in this area. Another powerful category named green logistics that has a direct relation to improving green supply chain management [9], so combination of the two main clusters, green logistics and environmental protection, can play an important role in improving GSCM. This study proposes the causal evaluation model which consists of two main green categories and applies the DEMATEL technique to evaluate the model and examine the relationship and interaction between the GSCM factors including their direct and indirect effects on each other. We present some related background regarding green supply chain and its significant related features and methods
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