Green Supply Chain (With case study)

Sustainable development has made remarkable progress in establishing environmental and social sustainability towards operations management and the supply chain. Making investments in this regard so as to enhance the environmental performance of a supply chain system can bring about numerous advantages for the organizations and enterprises as they will be able to save a remarkable amount of energy resources, reduce the pollutants, eliminate or minimize waste, create value for the customers, and consequently improve productivity. Manufacturers in the late 1980’s went beyond what was required in the legislation and went for a greener approach in their operations systems. The purpose of this paper is to briefly review the literature of the green supply chain management (GSCM) and provide a framework for the progress towards a greener supply chain system. In this paper, the supply chains of two leading companies which have been quite successful in this respect have also been analyzed analyses.