A proposal for a green supply chain strategy

This chapter introduces the roles of lean Supply Chain Management (SCM) strategies and green SCM strategies in the global business environments, thus explaining the theoretical and practical concepts of SCM, lean SCM strategies, and green SCM strategies; the importance of lean and green SCM strategies; and the interfaces of lean and green SCM strategies in terms of implementing green and global supply chain strategies, implementing green and lean supply chain strategies, and implementing lean and global supply chain strategies. Lean supply chain and green supply chain strategies help firms to maximize the improvement of lean production in operations management. Applying lean SCM strategies and green SCM strategies in the global business environments will significantly enhance organizational performance and achieve business goals in digital age.

This chapter introduces the roles of lean Supply Chain Management (SCM) strategies and green SCM strategies in the global business environments, thus explaining the theoretical and practical concepts of SCM, lean SCM strategies, and green SCM strategies; the importance of lean and green SCM strategies; and the interfaces of lean and green SCM strategies in terms of implementing green and global supply chain strategies, implementing green and lean supply chain strategies, and implementing lean and global supply chain strategies. Lean supply chain and green supply chain strategies help firms to maximize the improvement of lean production in operations management. Applying lean SCM strategies and green SCM strategies in the global business environments will significantly enhance organizational performance and achieve business goals in digital age.

Purpose The study attempts to explore the effectiveness of green supply chain strategies (GSCS) and sustainable practices (SP) in achieving a circular supply chain (CSC) within a business-to-business (B2B) context. The study further investigates the moderating role of green innovation (GIN) on the relationship between GSCS and SP.Design/methodology/approach The conceptual model was developed by adopting constructs from the existing studies. A self-administered tool was created, and data were gathered from supply chain (SC) specialists in the food, energy, tire, textile and paper industries. The structural equation model was employed to test the hypothesis, analyzing 243 responses obtained.Findings The findings indicate an affirmative association between GSCS, SP and the achievement of CSC, with SP acting as a partial mediator between GSCS and CSC. Results show that GSCS and SP are crucial for transitioning toward a circular model in the SC, emphasizing resource regeneration and sustainability. The data from our sample suggest that GIN significantly moderates the relationship between GSCS and CSC. These insights underline the importance of green strategies and sustainable practices (SP) in fostering CSCs in a B2B setting. The study’s implications are significant for SC management, suggesting that firms must integrate green and SP to achieve circularity and long-term viability.Originality/value This article brings forward a distinctive perspective on sustainability within the field of SC management emphasizing the crucial need for implementing CSC and GSCS in a B2B context.

Sustainable development has made remarkable progress in establishing environmental and social sustainability towards operations management and the supply chain. Sustainable development means “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations” Sustainability covers three aspects: economic, environmental and social responsibility. Green supply chain management (GSCM) is about making the entire supply chain more environmental sustainable. With the raising of awareness in environmental protection and sustainable development in enterprises, the green issue has become more and more critical in supply chain management. The green supply chain strategy selection is a multi-criterion problem which includes both qualitative and quantitative criteria. ANP is a multi-attribute, decision-making approach based on the reasoning, knowledge, and experience of the experts in the field. ANP can act as a valuable aid for decision making the best decision when both qualitative and quantitative aspects of decision are considered. ANP provides a general framework to deal with decisions without making assumptions about the independence of higher-level elements from lower level elements and about the independence of the elements within a level. The present work proposes a structured model for evaluating and selecting a Green Supply Chain Strategy by using Analytical Network Process (ANP) approach. The model is developed using evidence from empirical study in the industry. The model for selection of green supply chain strategy includes considers both the practicality in traditional SCM selection criteria, and also the green concept related to environmental protection and regulations. The proposed ANP model is used to evaluate the green supply chain strategy in Indian Automotive Company XYZ Ltd. The major advantages of this research are that it can be used for both qualitative and quantitative criteria. The results show that the model has the capability to be flexible and apply in different types of industries to choose their green supply chain strategy. The future research directions to this work include the design of more complex hierarchies and explore it. It may benefit the Indian industries to survive and serve better in Global Markets.

As an important supply chain development strategy, green investment and sustainability are concerns of the government and enterprises. However, due to the high cost and low profit of green investment, a large number of small and medium-sized firms can be deterred from their implementation. Value co-creation has become a key measure to solve this problem. This article explores the relationship between the green supply chain (GSC) strategy, value co-creation, and corporate performance in the manufacturing environment, and considers the regulatory effects of internal environmental factors and external environmental pressures on this relationship. Based on data from 115 manufacturers in China, we tested the hypotheses, explained the statistical results, and identified key concerns for implementing GSC through value co-creation. The findings reveal that the GSC strategy can promote a high level of firms’ value co-creation with their supply chain partners, and different value co-creation modes have different effects on firm performance (i.e., operational performance, innovation performance, and financial performance). In addition, the findings indicate that macro-level external pressure and micro-level internal support could enhance such effects. This study enriches the literature with value co-creation modes and GSC management by integrating GSC strategies and value co-creation strategies, providing confidence to the firms and their supply chain partners in value co-creation, thus helping them to better implement a GSC strategy.

Green supply chain has emerged as an important organizational strategy in modern business environment. While most of the current literature look at the green supply chain strategy adoption from economic and political perspective, we investigate the green supply chain strategy adoption from an institutional perspective because supply chain management involves cooperation and interactions among multiple stakeholders, and the decision to adopt this strategy may have more to do with the institutional environment in which a firm is situated. In this study, we identify key institutional determinants of green supply chain strategy adoption. A structured survey was designed to investigate critical driving forces of adoption of green supply chain strategy.

Green-resilient model for smartphone closed-loop supply chain network design: A novel four-valued refined neutrosophic optimization

Green readiness means the resources and factors optimization level that an enterprise or organization successfully takes measures to carry out the green strategy or plan. A large contingent of enterprises are positively exploring the approach of green supply chain management, however, more and more enterprises have realized that green readiness of supply chain is the dominant item that needs to be worked out while carrying out green supply chain strategy. This paper analyzes the key competitive resources of green supply chain upon the resource-based view (RBV), and establishes the readiness evaluation index system of green supply chain management for the manufacturing enterprises by recognizing the crucial factors of green readiness. Furthermore, it analyzes the promotion and cultivation strategy of green supply chain readiness. This paper will provide theoretical and practical evidence for reference by building green supply chain readiness aiming at constituting firm green supply chain strategy for sustainable development.

Green supply chain strategy is a concept that is gaining popularity rapidly in South African region. For many organisations, it is a process to exhibit their sincere commitment to sustainability. This paper endeavours to examine the critical green and supplier relationship practices on which management should focus in order to enhance supply chain performance. The systematic analysis based on total interpretive structural modelling is a better methodology to identify the inter-relationships among green strategy and supplier relationship practices. The approach extends the domain of green supply chain research and produce theories that have greater explanatory power than the current practices.

Purpose – The paper aims to develop a benchmarking framework to address issues such as supply chain complexity and visibility, geographical differences and non-standardized data, ensuring that the entire supply chain environmental impact (in terms of carbon) and resource use for all tiers, including domestic and import flows, are evaluated. Benchmarking has become an important issue in supply chain management practice. However, challenges such as supply chain complexity and visibility, geographical differences and non-standardized data have limited the development of approaches for evaluating performances of product supply chains. This industry-level benchmarking approach ensures that individual firms can compare their carbon emissions against other similarly structured firms. Design/methodology/approach – Benchmarking has become an important issue in supply chain management practice. However, challenges such as supply chain complexity and visibility, geographical differences and non-standardized data have limited the development of approaches for evaluating performances of product supply chains. The paper aims to develop a benchmarking framework to address these issues, ensuring that the entire supply chain environmental impact (in terms of carbon) and resource use for all tiers, including domestic and import flows, are evaluated. This industry-level benchmarking approach ensures that individual firms can compare their carbon emissions against other similarly structured firms. Findings – Supply chain carbon maps are developed as a means of producing industry-level benchmarks to set a measure for the environmental sustainability of product supply chains. The industry-level benchmark provides the first step for firms to manage the environmental performance, identify and target high carbon emission hot-spots and for cross-sectorial benchmarking. Originality/value – The paper links the theoretical development of supply chain environmental system based on the Multi-Regional Input–Output model to the innovative development of supply chain carbon maps, such that an industry-level benchmarking framework is produced as a means of setting product supply chain carbon emissions benchmarks.

Environmental issues are rapidly emerging as one of the most important topics in strategic manufacturing decisions. Perusal of the literature has shown many models to support executives in the assessment of a company’s environmental performance. Unfortunately, none of these identifies operating guidelines on how the systems should be adapted to support the deployment of different types of green supplychain strategies. This chapter seeks to investigate how system dynamics modeling can be supportive for management of feasible green supply-chain strategies. Besides conceptual considerations, we base our arguments on the development of efficient performance measurement systems for remanufacturing facilities in reverse supply chains, taking into account not only economic but also environmental issues. The behavior of the green supply-chain management under study is analyzed through a simulation model based on the principles of the system dynamics methodology. The simulation model can be helpful for green strategic management as an experimental tool, which can be used to evaluate alternative longterm strategies (“what-if” analysis) using total supply chain profit as measure of strategy effectiveness. Validation and numerical experimentation further illustrate the applicability of the developed methodology, while providing additional intuitively sound insights.

This paper discusses the impact of network externalities on the green strategies of enterprises at each node of the supply chain. The existing related research mainly addresses the influence of factors such as government regulation, consumer behavior characteristics, and node enterprise behavior on green supply chain decision making. While these studies provide excellent ideas, the impact of network externalities on both green manufacturing and green marketing strategies is often disregarded. This paper uses evolutionary game theory to construct a utility function based on network externalities and consumer green preferences. The Stackelberg game is used to analyze the revenue function of supply chain members under different strategies, showing that under different strategies, network externalities and consumer green preferences have different effects on revenue in the supply chain. To understand the influence of network externalities on green supply chain strategy choices, the evolutionary game model is used. This model allows analyzing the evolutionary stable strategies of manufacturers’ green manufacturing and retailers’ green marketing. The mechanism underlying the influence of network externalities and consumer green preferences on green supply chain decision making is demonstrated. This helps to explain the green strategy decisions of upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain.

This research investigates the impact of Green Human Resource and Green Supply Chain strategies on improving sustainable performance in the manufacturing industry. The main focus of this research is to understand how the implementation of these green strategies can improve a company's operational efficiency and productivity. This approach includes human resource management with a focus on environmental sustainability and supply chain optimization to minimize environmental impacts. The research methodology involved quantitative data analysis measuring the impact of green strategies on sustainable performance using random sampling. The research technique was carried out by means of observation, distributing questionnaires and processing data using SEM-AMOS. The sample used was 310 respondents in manufacturing companies located in the Bekasi area. The results of this study are expected to provide valuable insights for the manufacturing industry in facing sustainability challenges and increasing competitiveness through environmentally friendly business practices

Multi-period planning of closed-loop supply chain with carbon policies under uncertainty

Considering the uncertainty of green technology research and development (R&D) investment and channel members' fairness concern behavior, this article respectively analyzes participants' optimal decision-making under the manufacturer-dominated and the retailer-dominated structures. Given the probability of high efficiency and low efficiency of green R&D, this article uses the expected values under different probabilities to represent the equilibrium results. Through numerical simulations, we further comparatively discuss the equilibria under different scenarios. The results indicate that regardless of whether the manufacturer's green R&D is efficient or inefficient, it always will lead to an increase in products' pricing, greenness, demand, retailer's profit, and supply chain's social welfare. However, the change in the manufacturer's profit is uncertain, which is also related to its fixed R&D costs and R&D efficiency. Under the manufacturer-dominated structure, fairness concern behavior can lead to a decrease in products' pricing, greenness, demand, and profits for both the manufacturer and retailer; But under the retailer-dominated structure, the manufacturer's fairness concern has no impact on products' retail price, greenness, and demand. It only leads to the retailer raising markup price and reducing marginal profit, while the manufacturer's wholesale price and profit will increase. In addition, whether under the manufacturer-dominated and the retailer-dominated structures, the supply chain's social welfare is greater than that without green R&D and increases with the increase of the probability of efficient R&D. Nevertheless, the impact of the manufacturer's fairness concern on social welfare is not the same. It leads to a decrease in social welfare under the manufacturer-dominated structure, while leads to an increase under the retailer-dominated structure.