Abstract
Manufacturing companies in today's industrial world are seeking to use the new manufacturing process methods. The primary goal of corporations is to achieve optimum production while deploying minimal capital. The fundamental purpose of this study is to examine the influence of various lean manufacturing practices on the sustainability performance of companies and the mediating role of green supply chain management (GSCM). The data was gathered using questionnaires from 250 Pakistani manufacturing firms and analyzed using AMOS 25. Results demonstrate that process and equipment, product design, supplier relationships, and customer relationships significantly affect sustainable performance. It is also recognized that Green Supply Chain Management mediates the interaction between HR processes, product design, supplier relationship, customer relationship, and environmental performance. The findings of this study will enable managers and decision-makers of manufacturing companies to increase sustainable efficiency and reduce waste through the use of lean manufacturing and GSCM implementation.
Highlights
Many characteristics describe the management of the supply chain by various parameters
The findings revealed that for each construct, the square root for average extracted variance (AVE) is higher than the values of intercorrelations of the study variables, illustrating the scales’ excellent discriminant validity
The results reveal that PAE was positively related to sustainable performance (β = 0.144, p < 0.01) but MPC (β = −0.013, p = 0.803) and HRP (β = 0.025, p = 0.800) were not significantly related to sustainable performance, which supports H1
Summary
Many characteristics describe the management of the supply chain by various parameters. The parameters include intense competition, an increased requirement for cleaner products, environmental maintenance problems, and the pressure to decrease and handle waste problems. Customers’ primary demand is to use the “cleaner” products to reduce waste, environmental decline, and problems related to contamination and pollution (Henao et al, 2019). The main aim of prominent and successful businesses is to combine the two dominant strategies of “lean” and “green” for the extraction of waste and scrap produced as a part of routine operational processes. Notable cost savings for supply chain functions may be significant by merging lean and green thinking to identify, reduce, and remove the excess usage of resources and the production waste (Iranmanesh et al, 2019)
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