Lean and Green Supply Chain Performance: A Balanced Scorecard Perspective

Abstract

The performance evaluation has become an important subject to get competitive advantage on supply chain. New business paradigms as lean and green are able to develop improvements on the supply chain performance. To get a balanced performance measurement system, a balanced scorecard (BSC) may be developed. This study is motivated by the lack of evidence on the lean and green supply chain performance through a BSC framework. The purpose of this study is to explore how to reach benefits on supply chain performance, considering the lean and green performance measures through the traditional BSC perspectives. To attain the paper objective in a first stage a literature review was carried out, to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the BSC can incorporate the lean and green supply chain performance measures. Next, a conceptual framework was developed to investigate how lean and green initiatives can affect the supply chain performance, using a cause-and-effect BSC approach. It is possible to recognize that lean and green initiatives influence the linkages between performance measures. These linkages in the scorecard are an example of how to evaluate the organization’s supply chain.KeywordsLean supply chainGreen supply chainBalanced scorecard Performance measurement