Implementation Of Green Supply Chain Research Articles

Research on the Logistics Management of Fresh Produce from the Perspective of Green Supply Chain

With the continuous development and change of the times, people have a higher pursuit of quality of life, and the demand and quality requirements of fresh products are increasing, requiring a more refined and suitable logistics management for the context of the times. The existing literature today is mainly from the perspective of traditional supply chain, and the research from the perspective of green supply chain is relatively missing. In this paper, I analyze the current situation of fresh produce logistics system in the context of a green supply chain to analyze the imperfections in this field according to the questionnaire survey and collection, then propose improvement suggestions and measures. The research in this paper will play an effective role in promoting the implementation of green supply chain. At the same time for the environmental awareness supply chain in the construction of society to play a role in calling for, and jointly help the development of green production and life.

Performance measurement framework of green supply chain implementation in the context of Indian manufacturing organizations

Purpose This research aims to explore the various green supply chain management (GSCM) performance measures and develop the efficient performance measurement framework for evaluation of influence of GSCM adoption on organizational performance.Design/methodology/approach This research proposes a hybrid framework of Pythagorean fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and Pythagorean fuzzy weighted aggregated sum product assessment technique. The usefulness of proposed framework is validated using empirical case example of Indian manufacturing organization.Findings The finding reveals that the overall performance of case organization is 67.03% based on define set of performance measures. Further, the proposed framework has been validated with other three Indian automobile manufacturing organizations. The results obtained were confirmed with selected empirical case company. The proposed hybrid framework provides the effective path to measure and benchmark the impact of each performance measures on system performance.Research limitations/implications This research is limited to automobile sector of India; hence the results obtained in this study may not be comprehensibly used to other sectors due to different product and process fields.Originality/valueThis research aids the industrial practitioners to effectively implement the green supply chain management (GSCM) and helps them to boost the overall performance of business organizations in three dimensions of sustainability.

The Challenges Faced by Manufacturing Companies in Implementation of Green Supply Chain: Evidence from the Bakhresa Food Products Limited in Dar es Salaam – Tanzania

Northwistanding the role played by manufacturing companies in implementation of green supply chain, it seems that, this role has not been fully practiced by manufacturing companies in ensuring green supply chain. Taking Bakhresa Food Product LTD as a case study. This paper is intended to get a better understanding of the challenges faced by manufacturing companies in understanding green supply chain and recommending strategies for improving this role. Based on the qualitative appraoch and a purposive sample of 60 respondents, data were collected using in-depth interview, focus group discussion, indirect observation and analysis of secondary data. Data were analysed based on the thematic analysis strategy through the aid of MAXQDA 10 software. Findings of the study revealed that, manufacturing companies faced a number of challenges towards implementing green supply chain. At the green sourcing and purchasing level, the company was confronted with lack of sustainable practices in the organization vision and mission, poor commitment by top management to source environmental friendly materials and high operational costs. Moroever, challenges related to green manufacturing were lack of knowledge by the staff on environmental practices and impacts as well as lack of demand for green manufactured products due to their expensive nature. Challenges related to green transportation and distribution included irregular transportation by the vehicles, poor maintenance of the vehicles and poor infrastructures. Finally, challenges related to green disposal and reverse logistics were lack of information sharing between the firms and suppliers, inadequate legal enforcement by the government specifically to protect environment, shortage of equipment, lack of knowledge of the workers about disposal processess and also manufacturing companies failure to control customers after selling the products. Hence, to improve this situation, we recommend that; to improve green sourcing, use of modernized machines and provision of relevant traing. For the green transportation, manufacturing companies are required to conduct maintanance fot motor vehicles, making consolidation of materials so as to reduce number of trips per day. Finally, to improve green disposal, manufacturing companies are required to establish the program of waste collection from the residential areas as well as purchasing disposal equipment so as to avoid costs of outsourcing

A green supply chain taxonomy in healthcare: critical factors for a proactive approach

PurposeThe aim of this study is to identify the critical factors of green supply chain (GSC) and to adapt these factors to the taxonomy of green practices in healthcare.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative multiple-case study approach was followed based on 60 interviews with nine French hospitals. An intra-case and a cross-case analysis were implemented.FindingsThe findings provide a taxonomy of healthcare GSC and show that regulation, cost reduction, top management commitment, employee training, information technology and measures of environmental performance are critical factors for GSC implementation. The study also underlines a few emergent critical factors including the purchasing group, environmental champion, building construction, combining safety and green approaches.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was conducted in France following a qualitative methodological approach. Future research can consider other national and cross-national investigations and other quantitative or mixed methods approaches.Practical implicationsThe research provides managers and policy makers numerous invaluable suggestions for the implementation of GSC practices in healthcare facilities. To accelerate GSC implementation, managers can invest in the construction of new buildings, in information technology, and in the automation of flows.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper identifying the critical factors of GSC implementation in the healthcare sector. It is also the first attempt to provide a taxonomy of hospitals according to their green approaches (reactive, receptive, and proactive).

Evaluation of Green Supply Chain Management Practices Under Uncertainty Environment: Case Study in The Company for Batteries Industry

This work used a model of integrated the fuzzy set theory and Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory to evaluate the green practices that can affect the green supply chain implementation in battery industry. The integrated fuzzy MCDM model is used to assess the GSCM performance in company based on green terms: green purchasing, green manufacturing, reverse logistic. Therefore, using fuzzy DEMATEL method to exploring the relationship between criteria and factors which affect other factors in GSCM. The hybrid approach presented an empirical analysis under linguistic preferences for the firm to find the critical practices that affected the GSCM performance and green practice implementation. The results showed that the economic performance and the revers logistic are the cause of the low environmental performance of the company and located in the cause group.

Analysis of the barriers in implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) practices: a hybrid approach

Green supply chain management (GSCM) is being felt as the need of the day in many industries. This is because of the mounting evidence in favour of global warming and climate change due to human activities. The government is being pressurized by the people and the government in turn pressurizes the industries to adopt green practices. Apart from this there is moral responsibility for the managers of a company to reduce their ecological footprint. Due to these reasons there is a need to implement GSCM practices. As with anything we can observe that there are a lot of barriers that hinder the implementation of green supply chain (GSC) practices. To understand the nature of these barriers a literature survey was conducted on the barriers that affect small and medium scale industries. Fifteen barriers were recognised and literature survey was conducted on the analysis that had previously been done on these barriers. To address these barriers, they have been evaluated using MCDM approaches that are suited for the unique nature of these barriers (i.e., the barriers interact with each other). The effectiveness of removal of each barrier should be considered and should be integrated with a structural model to achieve the goal. For, this purpose SAW, TOPSIS, AHP and ISM have been used.

Developing Indicators of Green Initiation and Green Design of Green Supply Chain Management in Construction Industry

Project is a set of interrelated activities and requires skills from different professions, and also project is involved the various of stakeholders in each phase of the Project Life Cycle. Implementation of Green Supply Chain in construction projects meant to bring the concept of eco-friendly in every process from the initiation phase, planning phase, the construction phase, and the operation and maintenance phase. It is necessary to identify indicators of green initiation and green design and how to explain the relationship between the role of initiation by the owner and the design process by a design consultant. This study aims to identify the indicators of green initiation and green design concept as part of Green Supply Chain. The method used for this study is a descriptive research that identifies and develop a framework for implementing green initiation and green design in construction industry that consists of concept, dimensions, elements, and indicators. GSCM in construction projects was determined by 9 indicators in the green initiation phase and 40 indicators in the green design phase. The success of green concept in construction project is very determined from these two phases as the beginning of the process, and the most important parties are the owners and design consultants.

Role of Information and Communication Technology in Green Supply Chain Implementation and Companies’ Performance

The aim of this study is to quantify the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) and its technological updates on the success of the green supply chain (GSC) implementation, as well as the benefits this affords. This research is applied to the Mexican maquiladora export industry. A model of structural equations is presented to know the importance of the integration of ICT, combined with the implementation of GSC and the generation of benefits with the use of ICT. The results indicate that there is a direct, positive effect (PE) and significant among the four latent variables (LTV) analyzed but the most noteworthy is the indirect effect that the variable updating the ICT has on the benefits of GSC, through the variable mediators’ implementation of a GSC, since the direct effect of updating the ICT on the benefits of the implementation of GSC does not become significant. Whereby, it is recommended that the industry integrates and updates its ICT since, using the integrated and updated ICT and the implementation of a GSC, a series of economic, productive and environmental benefits will be created.

Evaluating the performance of suppliers based on using the R'AMATEL-MAIRCA method for green supply chain implementation in electronics industry

Abstract Green supply chain management (GSCM) practitioners striving to create a healthier environment should first identify the key criteria pertinent to the process of implementing the appropriate sustainable policies, particularly in the most rapidly growing electronics sector. Since the decision to adopt GSCM in electronics industry is associated with the use of a multi-dimensional approach involving a number of qualitative criteria, the paper examines GSCM based on fifteen criteria expressed in five dimensions and proposes a multi-criteria evaluation framework for selecting suitable green suppliers. In real life, the assessment of this decision is based on vague information or imprecise data of the expert's subjective judgements, including the feedback from the criteria and their interdependence. Thus to treat this uncertainty in multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process, rough number (RN) is applied here using only the internal knowledge in the operative data available to the decision-makers. In this way objective imprecisions and uncertainties are used and there is no need to rely on models of assumptions. Instead of different external parameters in the application of RN, the structure of the given data is used. Therefore, the identified components are incorporated into a rough DEMATEL-ANP (R'AMATEL) method, combining the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory Model (DEMATEL) and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) in a rough context. In group decision making, a rough number-based approach aggregates individual judgements and handles imprecision. The structure of the relationships between the criteria expressed in different dimensions is determined by using the rough DEMATEL (R'DAMETEL) method and building an influential network relation mapping, based on which the rough ANP (R'ANP) method is implemented to obtain the respective criteria weights. Then, the rough multi-attribute Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis (R'MAIRCA) is used to evaluate the environmental performance of suppliers for each evaluation criterion. Sensitivity analysis is performed to determine the impact of the weights of criteria and the influence of the decision maker's preferences on the final evaluation results. Applying the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and other ranking methods, the stability of the alternative rankings based on the variation in the criteria weights is checked. The results obtained in the study show that the proposed method significantly increases the objectivity of supplier assessment in a subjective environment.

Seven Steps to Successfully Implementation of Green Supply Chain in Iran

A new approach that has been dominant in recent years on management of operations is supply chain management (SCM) approach. Supply chain is network of facilities and distribution centers performing the tasks of procurement of raw materials, turning it into final and intermediate products and distribution of these products for customer. On the other hand, world is faced with issues such as global warming, pollution, increasing the quantity of greenhouse gases and that these issues could potentially lead to the extinction of the human race. Therefore, preserving the environment and strategies related to it was included in priority of programs, as an important organizational innovation. Organizations needed to focus on profitability and competitive advantage on one hand, and eliminating or minimizing the wastes (energy, emissions, chemical / hazardous solid waste) on the other hand. It was here that the idea of green supply chain was proposed and soon it attracted the attention of everyone. The present research is applied in terms of the objective, and it is analytical and descriptive is terms of methodology. Population of study included customers of various organizations and companies, which their number is 320 people, and 175 of them were selected as sample of study using Cochran table. Results of this study suggest that 10 main steps of study have been organized in 7 steps and 5 dimensions, and out of 10 steps proposed, three steps were eliminated and 7 steps were obtained. Using ANP method, they were ranked that the most important of them was using the modern technology. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n51p149

Evolutionary Game Research on the Core Business and Consumer Behavior in Green Supply Chain under IOT Environment

As the worsening global ecological environment, the effective implementation of green supply chain based on IOT is an inevitable trend of future development. Through combing and analyzing the domestic and foreign situations of green supply chain management under IOT, we found that the current research about the relation between consumer behaviors and core business in green supply chain is insufficient. In view of this, this paper systematically analyzes the intrinsic link between these two sides, and builds the relation model between core business and consumers. Furthermore, this paper constructs an evolutionary game model based on the evolutionary game theory, and derives an evolutionary stable strategy by solving replicated dynamics equation. At last, with the analysis of the results, we put forward some countermeasures and suggestions and provide a useful reference for the effective implementation of green supply chain under IOT.

Determinants of green supply chain implementation in the food and beverage sector

Using a grounded theory approach, this paper extracts emerging concepts in the implementation of green supply chain management from case data of New Zealand food and beverage (FB management structure, systems, and decision-making; management of people and company culture; and relationships with supply-chain members.

The study of knowledge transfer and green management performance in green supply chain management

The information communication and knowledge exchange based on environmental friendly requirements among manufacturers is the critical success factor of green supply chain management (GSCM). The firms of IT industry in Taiwan with green supply chain implementation was used as the research objects to further explore constructs of knowledge transfer and the relationships between knowledge transfer and green management performance. The result showed that; (1) Information quality had significant positive impact on environmental management performance; (2) Information sharing and information quality did not have significant impact on positive economical performance; (3) Information sharing had positive significant impact on negative economical performance. The research findings revealed that firms should realize the effect of short-term costs and benefits on knowledge transfer in order to enhance green management performance. Key words: Knowledge transfer, information sharing, information quality, green management performance, green supply chain management.