Abstract

To prevent Climate Change and environmental laws, companies has tried to effort disseminate cleaner production, GPs(Green Partnerships) and CPs(Carbon Partnerships) into SMEs(Small and Medium Enterprises) based on the SCM(Supply Chain Management). Korean government has supported GSCM(Green Supply Chain Management) to develop more and more such as GPs, CPs and GPDPs(Green Product Development Partnerships). Coway, the Korean well-being household electronics company has conducted the GPDPs first with 6 SMEs who produce and supply main parts of the target product, water purifier. At first, Coway constructed the green product development system related each SME's internal green part development system. Based on the system, Coway and 6 SMEs cooperative developed an improved green product environmentally. And a parent company trained green product R&D experts in SMEs. As a result, Coway Water Purifier, about 26% or more of the environmental improvement achieved was to determine the effectiveness of the system developed for this collaboration, green product development.

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