Environmental Sustainability Through Green Supply Chain Management

Fierce competition, fluctuating market demand and rising customer requirements has led to customers becoming more demanding with increased preferences (Zhang and Cheng, 2006). In, the 21 st century, participating largely in globalization has created significant opportunities, and at the same time, put pressure on the automotive industry manufacturers to enhance quality, improve styling, increase organizational efficiencies and drive innovative features into their products in an effort to attract customers and expand into new markets (BCC, 2005). This paper explores the concept of supply chain management with a case study of one of the greatest motor brands BMW. We will look at the supply chain strategy of the company and how successfully it

Cooperated with partners and leaders in the field of supply chains and transport, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Logistics and Transportation started to conduct research on the supply chain. The report “Beyond Supply Chains Empowering Responsible Value Chains” analyses the impact that supply chain practices has brought to business, society and environment, and explores the issue how shared value can be made through better supply chain decisions. The report identifies “a set of 31 proven supply chain practices which provide companies with a blueprint of where they can gain both commercial and socio-environmental advantage (both environment and local economic development)—driving a triple advantage” (). In addition, the report “provides a framework for evaluating the potential value at stake behind each of these practices, and an implementation framework for

Sustainable Supply Chain – working with and influencing suppliers to manage and reduce the environmental and social impacts of their operations and of the products and services they provide to Telstra.

There are the manufacturers and corporations whose main concern largely is to profit. there are the environmentalists who want to preserve the community and promote recycling to help diminish the landfills. Then there are the consumers: some who buy what is cheap, and often created with planned obsolescence in mind, some who buy with the environment in mind, but do little research to ensure it is a wholesome company, and then there are those who to extensive research to make sure they are hurting the environment as little as possible. Consumers have the opportunity to make conscious decisions to help our environment, but the reality behind products is well-hidden and needs to be brought to higher attention. Waste epitomizes the American consumer culture to continuously buy new products, and not think about the harm it is causing the environment. Recycling has evolved over time into a ploy to make consumers spend more money, and is causing more harm to the environment by increasing the amount of packaging used over product. The growing consumerist culture can be attributed to the increased “greenwashing” scheme. Is it morally right for companies to increase their waste in order to make more

being more sustainable and profitable are present at each stage of supply chain, including material

Companies around the world are focussing on incorporating sustainability policy and practices in their supply chain (Ageron et al, 2011). The topic of sustainability has been of great interest for the last decade and businesses have adopted a certain level of commitment towards sustainability practices (Hassini et al, 2012), yet some business tycoons suffer in developing an effective supply chain model.

The solution to the faulty global supply chain, presented by Timothy Smith’s Climate Change: Corporate Sustainability in the Supply Chain, lies within including environmental sustainability into; transnational policy regimes, technological development, and consumptive behavior of society.

In your study syndicates, you are expected to read, analyse and interpret the key underlying issues of the following case-study titled "The Universal Motor Company Acquires Semiconductors". Six (6) questions have to be answered and these questions can be found at the end of the case study.

It focuses on the development of supply chains that have minimal footprint on the environment. Buyers have the responsibility of choosing suppliers that conduct environmental ethics and are environmentally conscious. (C Sisco, 2010)

There is an increasing focus towards business sustainability in the present times. Companies are expected to operate in a manner that they do not harm the environment or impact stakeholders in negatively (Daft, 2008). Unethical and unsustainable practices are condemned with stakeholders particularly the consumers, governments and pressure groups openly pressurizing companies to change their practices and accept responsibility for their actions (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2011). For multinational corporations, attaining sustainability within their supply chains is important. Even though supply chain sustainability is an emerging concept, large corporations are showing interest towards developing sustainable supply chain.

This is the report regarding to the going green program to reduce Carbon Footprint requested by Global Solutions. I have attached the report which goes into the detail and explores the ways we can tackle this problem. Hopefully you will review the ideas, benefits and the solutions that our company and community will gain.

In recent years sustainable supply chain management is one of the most interesting issues among supply chain experts. The sustainable supply chain focuses on social, environmental and economic performance measures as main pillars of sustainability. Environmental aspects of the sustainable supply chain include input- oriented factors such as renewable energy sources, natural resources, water and energy consumption or water quality, while output- oriented factors concentrate on waste and pollution[1]. In New Zealand, natural environment provides various benefits such as high quality of life, tourism attraction and basis for the country’s large exports of agriculture. Water pollution and climate change are the main concerns of the country as

Late accentuation on worldwide environmental change is expanding weight on automotive executives to make the right decisions in many areas to settle on the right choices in numerous zones, including R&D and assembling. Shiv industry is the automotive parts industry face challenges from the lower end competition comes from the unorganized sector and the higher end of technology competition comes from more evolved industries in the current Indian scenario. Indeed, discharge level targets, presently being referred to, undermine to change the whole structure of the car business. These difficulties hit an industry effectively tormented with high expenses, low profit margins, and accelerating competition. In the interim, numerous others are experiencing some type of rebuilding. General macroeconomic and budgetary circumstances are not so much positive, either. The expense of vitality and crude materials keeps on expanding because of rising worldwide interest. Solid vacillations in return and interest rates posture another test and are troublesome and excessive against which to support. In this dynamic business environment, a predominant supply chain is one basic component to helping automakers separate themselves from the opposition. Actually, a number of patterns in the car business are strengthening the need to reclassify supply chain techniques, designs,

Despite the numerous ways in which sustainable supply chain management helps operations, there are internal and external limitations to the technique. The first of such internal limitations is cost, which is an impediment for small and medium business to integrate sustainable activities (Alzawawi, n.d., p. 4). Without adequate funding, an organization is unable to implement and conduct all operations in a sustainable manner. Another limitation is a deficiency in understanding sustainable practices and the benefits therefrom (Alzawawi, n.d., p. 4). As such, an organization is incapable of undertaking sustainable activities when decision makers lack the knowledge required to implement changes.

In comparison, GSCM is green, integrated and ecologically optimized and takes into consideration the human toxicological effects as well. Companies considered ecological requirements as the most important criteria for products and production, to ensure economic profitability and sustainability. Here are the five characteristics of traditional and green supply chain management. The first characteristic is objective and values, Traditional SCM is economic but in Green SCM still have economic but will add-on ecological. Then ecological optimization in Traditional SCM is integrated approach high but Green SCM is ecological impacts. On supplier selection criteria, Traditional SCM is price switching supplier short term relations but to the Green SCM it is a long term relations ecological aspects. The cost prices is low of Traditional SCM and high of Green SCM. The last characteristic is speed and flexibility which is high in Traditional SCM and low in Green SCM. (Ashish J. and Hari,