Anticipating greener supply chain demands: One Singapore company's journey to ISO 14001

Author(s):  
Michael W. Toffel
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Author(s):  
Ramneet Sidhu ◽  
Varun Arora

Supply chain management plays an important role in design, development, manufacturing, etc. and has key impact on company's overall environmental performance. Recently, green supply chain management has gained great interest from researchers and practitioners. Consideration has been given to consider environmental factors in entire supply chain starting from procurement, production, transportation, consumption, and post-disposal of products to make the whole product life cycle green. And those companies implementing ISO 14001 are controlling and minimizing risks not only internally but also externally with their suppliers. In this chapter, the authors are benchmarking sustainability performance of suppliers using ISO 14001 and rough set QFD. For this objective, firstly they identify the requirements for green supply chain planning on the basis of ISO 14001. Then, they evaluate the suppliers on the basis of these requirements using a QFD-based approach. To handle the uncertainties arising due to lack of or limited data, rough set theory is used. The results show that the proposed approach can effectively handle imprecise information and facilitates selection of green supply chain initiatives in a structured way.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarinah Abdul Rasit ◽  
Maisurah Zakaria ◽  
Marshita Hashim ◽  
Aliza Ramli ◽  
Muzrifah Mohamed

Environmental issues have been critical concern among the current businesses as various business activities might pose significant threats to the environment. Incorporating environmental aspects in business operations is perceived to be able to create value and to achieve sustainable business performance. The manufacturing sector is the key contributor to the country’s high pollution index. Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices have become more prevalent in this sector in managing the environmental issues for the effectiveness of their production requirement. Nevertheless, the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) mainly are less likely to embark on environmental practices as compared to large organisations. The establishment of certified environmental management systems (EMS) is considered as a strategic management approach that defines how organisations will address their impact on the natural environment guided by ISO 14001 as a framework. This study provides empirical evidence examining the extent of GSCM practices among the SMEs through the possession of ISO 14001 and examines the impact on sustainability performance. Data were analysed using regression analyses. Results indicate that GSCM practices have a significant positive relation with sustainability performance. Eco-design practices and environmental cooperation have a positive relationship with sustainability performance. There is no relationship between green purchasing and reverse logistics practices with sustainability performance. These results imply that Malaysian SMEs adopt GSCM practices mostly through eco-design and robust cooperation among departments in dealing with environmental issues. Green practices and reverse logistics practices are still new for SMEs and do not contribute to achieving better performance.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1196-1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jei-Zheng Wu ◽  
Caroline Himadewi Santoso ◽  
Jinshyang Roan

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore key factors or criteria of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) influencing Indonesian coal companies, using “adoption, implementation, and performance” (A-I-P) of SSCM, thru three means: first, to investigate which criteria have higher weight to achieve SSCM in Indonesia; second, to see whether there are any differences between the Indonesia case and existing literature of SSCM; third, to highlight any causal relationships between the Indonesia case and the SSCM theory. Design/methodology/approach DEMATEL-based analytic network process (DANP) questionnaire survey with a theoretical SSCM model is applied to conduct an empirical test for the coal production and supply chain companies in Indonesia. Findings The “performance” dimension out of the A-I-P of the SSCM is the most important one, while the “adoption” dimension is the least. Out of the 12 criteria under the three dimensions, the “operational, economic, environmental, and social” factors under the category of the performance dimension and the “ISO 14001 certification” criteria belonging to the dimension of “implementation” are the top five key factors in the SSCM. Research limitations/implications There are some limitations in this study. First and foremost is the relatively small sample size with a limited geographic area, although they are unavoidable owing to one country case study. Practical implications The test results are helpful to draw guidance for sustainable supply chain managers in implementing efficient SSCM in the wave of tough competition and changing marketplace. Originality/value This study contributes first to developing a theoretical framework for SSCM under the A-I-P model and second, to applying DANP to an empirical case of SSCM of the coal industry in Indonesia. As a result, the authors draw helpful guidelines and policy implications for SSCM of the coal industry, referring to the A-I-P dimension as drivers and enablers for the SSCM performances of the industry.


2016 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Engelage ◽  
Altair Borgert

Este estudo busca identificar qual o impacto das práticas da Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) no comportamento dos custos de empresas do setor energético listadas na BM&FBOVESPA, ao adotar como proxy de mensuração a certificação ISO 14001, a listagem do Índice de Sustentabilidade Empresarial (ISE) e a Lei nº 9.991/2000. Para tanto, analisam-se, por meio de modelos de regressão para dados em painel, as informações financeiras não consolidadas de 1995 a 2014, coletadas na Economática® e atualizadas pelo índice IPCA/IBGE. Os resultados divergem das ideias dos autores trazidos em discussão, à medida que as variáveis explicativas não se apresentam estatisticamente significantes, ao considerar os níveis usuais de intervalo de confiança. Assim, não é possível inferir que houve impacto na eficiência produtiva das empresas, com aumento ou diminuição da proporção do custo em relação às receitas de venda. Dessa forma, e ao considerar que esse efeito pode ser compensado por outros fatores, busca-se analisar isoladamente os custos e as receitas. Os resultados demonstram que todas as variáveis explicativas não são estatisticamente significativas para as análises de receitas, mas, para as análises de custos, tem-se que, quanto maior o nível de adesão às práticas de GSCM, maiores são os custos dos produtos vendidos.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Rohani Abdullah ◽  
Marini Nurbanum Mohamad ◽  
Ramayah Thurasamy

This paper investigates the effects of green supply chain management practices on sustainable performance. This study sent a survey to 616 Malaysian ISO 14001 certified manufacturing companies. With a total of 152 usable questionnaires, the response rate was 24.68%. The findings showed that green purchasing and eco-design were found to improve all the components of sustainable performance. While reverse logistics was found to have a positive impact on social performance only. These relationships indicate that Green Supply Chain Management Practices can be of value to organizations specifically, as well to the external environment at large.


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