Environmentally Conscious Supply Chain Management

Green Integrated Supply Chain Management (GISCM) brings together various stakeholders in the supply chain within and outside the organization to help the organization improve its environmental credentials. To benefit both the business and the environmental bottom line, the supply chain management of an organization needs to be analyzed, planned and optimized for sourcing and deliveries and in an environmentally-conscious manner. Such analysis includes suppliers, customers, regulatory authorities and employees at all levels on an organization. Undoubtedly, electronic (Internet-based) systems deliver enterprises with a competitive advantage by opening up opportunities to streamline processes, reduce costs, increase customer patronage and enable straight thorough processing capabilities. These same characteristics of good SCM can be converted to handle environmental issues related to supply chain operation and processing. This chapter proposes a fundamental framework for creating and analyzing GISCM solutions.

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The Development and Analysis of Environmentally Responsible Supply Chain Models

Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Business Practice - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0635-5.ch003 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 52-82

Author(s):

Ehab Bazan ◽

Mohamad Y. Jaber

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Modeling ◽

Decision Making ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Inventory Management ◽

Operations Management ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Chain Management ◽

Environmentally Responsible ◽

Decision Making Processes

Inventory management and supply chain management are integral issues and prime areas of concern in production and operations management, and industrial engineering. There is a drive for businesses and organizations to be accountable for their environmental impacts. Guaranteeing environmentally conscious supply chain operations is strongly linked to an organization's sustainability and overall success. The responsible management of forward and return product flows in production and inventory environments is a rapidly increasing requirement. This can be attributed to economic, environmental and/ or regulatory motivations. Mathematical modeling of such systems assists decision-making processes and provided a better understanding of the behavior of such production and inventory environments.

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Analytic Hierarchy Process to Select Environmentally Conscious Suppliers for Sustainable Supply Chain Management : A Case Study in a Public Sector Transport Corporation

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.813-814.1133 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 813-814 ◽

pp. 1133-1139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. Etraj ◽

J. Jayaprakash

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Public Sector ◽

Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽

Toxic Waste ◽

Sustainable Supply Chain ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Chain Management ◽

Hierarchy Process

The ever increasing levels of hazardous and toxic waste generated from industrial sector hasten to implement the Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) in all sphere of the business practice. In this research article the authors developed a Supplier Selection model applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to select Environmentally Conscious Suppliers (ECS) for one of the maintenance unit of Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) providing public passenger transport service in a metropolitan city located in South India. Being a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), the organization has the list of approved suppliers who are pre-qualified to supply the materials and spare parts required to maintain their road vehicles in accordance with the Government’s Public Procurement Policy (PPP). However the growing concern being faced by the organization in the disposal of the hazardous and toxic waste accumulated, which forces them to select suitable suppliers who will comply with the SSCM principles from their pre-qualified list of suppliers.

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Environmentally-conscious supply chain management

Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment ISEE (Cat. No.95CH35718) ◽

10.1109/isee.1995.514982 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

S. Beckman ◽

P. Worhach ◽

P.S. Sheng

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Chain Management

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Integrating Green ICT in a Supply Chain Management System

Handbook of Research on Green ICT ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-834-6.ch038 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 523-534 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bhuvan Unhelkar ◽

Yi-Chen Lan

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Bottom Line ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Chain Management ◽

Chain Operation ◽

Supply Chain Management System ◽

Integrated Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Operation ◽

Opening Up

Green Integrated Supply Chain Management (GISCM) brings together various stakeholders in the supply chain within and outside the organization to help the organization improve its environmental credentials. To benefit both the business and the environmental bottom line, the supply chain management of an organization needs to be analyzed, planned and optimized for sourcing and deliveries and in an environmentally-conscious manner. Such analysis includes suppliers, customers, regulatory authorities and employees at all levels on an organization. Undoubtedly, electronic (Internet-based) systems deliver enterprises with a competitive advantage by opening up opportunities to streamline processes, reduce costs, increase customer patronage and enable straight thorough processing capabilities. These same characteristics of good SCM can be converted to handle environmental issues related to supply chain operation and processing. This chapter proposes a fundamental framework for creating and analyzing GISCM solutions.

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The Development and Analysis of Environmentally Responsible Supply Chain Models

Operations and Service Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3909-4.ch058 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1294-1317

Author(s):

Ehab Bazan ◽

Mohamad Y. Jaber

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Modeling ◽

Decision Making ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Inventory Management ◽

Operations Management ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Chain Management ◽

Environmentally Responsible ◽

Decision Making Processes

Inventory management and supply chain management are integral issues and prime areas of concern in production and operations management, and industrial engineering. There is a drive for businesses and organizations to be accountable for their environmental impacts. Guaranteeing environmentally conscious supply chain operations is strongly linked to an organization's sustainability and overall success. The responsible management of forward and return product flows in production and inventory environments is a rapidly increasing requirement. This can be attributed to economic, environmental and/ or regulatory motivations. Mathematical modeling of such systems assists decision-making processes and provided a better understanding of the behavior of such production and inventory environments.

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Ordering drivers of green supply chain management practices in Indian construction industry

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management ◽

10.1108/ijqrm-03-2019-0076 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

pp. 00-00

Author(s):

Arpit Singh ◽

Subhas C. Misra

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Green Supply Chain Management ◽

Green Supply Chain ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Chain Management ◽

Content Type ◽

Rough Sets Theory ◽

Green Practices ◽

Novel Method

PurposeIncreasing pressure from government and consumer to be environmentally conscious has led firms to focus their attention on the assessment and controlling the adverse impacts their operations have on the environment. The current study focuses on identifying the factors and their relative importance in the implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) process.Design/methodology/approachThe factors influencing the GSCM are ranked from most important to least important using a novel method of ranking relying on rough sets theory. Opinions on the importance of the factors are gathered from the experts from industrial, environmental, and societal domains.FindingsInvolvement of government in promoting the importance of green practices in organizations and societal insistence of being environmentally conscious are the factors that demonstrated maximum potential in establishing a strong GSCM framework.Practical implicationsThis study aids the management to discover important factors for the establishment of a strong GSCM framework. This encourages the management to follow and apply green practices in operations. Also, it sheds light on the current situation of environmental awareness in the Indian construction industries.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the existing literature on identification and ordering of factors for GSCM by introducing a novel method of ranking based on Rough set approach. The method includes the preference information of the decision makers to yield the final ranking of the factors.

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