History Of Green Supply Chain Management

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.

In recent years, when the concept of sustainability is raising up, there is high percentage of customers who aware about the green products (Rather & Rajendran 2014), they do not only consider about the product or

However, in Global Supply Chain Management, there is also a need to protect the environment, although for more selfish reasons. Businesses need to be environmentally friendly because people around the world are catching onto the fad of “going green” and want products and companies that boast that. By having sustainable product development and sustainable transportation methods, business are both protecting the environment and attracting more consumers. This is an interesting point because one would not think that a book about best business practices would attract a business towards being more environmentally friendly, but the book is clear that that is what is

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. The legitimacy, authority, and effectiveness of environmental sustainability must come from transnational policy regimes. Supply chains are global from start to finish. As such, the problems associated within the supply chain stem across many different political boundaries and jurisdictions. Only a transnational policy regime, whether it be an existing organization like the United Nations or a new entity, can effectively fulfill the burden of fixing the global supply chain. Over seventy percent of all emissions come from the supply chain (Suh). Environmental sustainability is something many groups are working towards—like the Carbon Disclosure Project-- but, because environmental sustainability lacks legitimacy, authority or effectiveness, these ventures aren’t treated like corporate projects, but rather, pet projects. Likewise, Timothy Smith’s Climate Change: Corporate Sustainability in the Supply Chain, takes into account the expensive nature of enforcement, “Conducting audits is expensive, but the risks

Kaplan and Norton (2006) define strategic alignment as the internal consistency of the activ- ities that implement the different attributes of strategy. Environmental sustainability drives firms to not only develop corporate environmental proactively but also to move toward green/sustainable supply chain management (Aragon-Correa and Rubio-Lo´ pez, 2007; Seuring and M¨ uller, 2008). Monczka and Petersen (2012) suggest that environmentally sustainable supply chain management is an integrated strategy which must align closely with and support business strategy in response to a changing marketplace. When alignment is lacking, Monczka and Petersen (2012) mention that supply management cannot sup- port the business in response to socioeconomic pressures. Thus, firms must align their SC and CE strategies in order to boost the overall firm performance. So it is very important for firms to understand their strategies, and the co-relationship between corporate strategy and the supply chain strategy, what sort of resource and capabilities and how to develop the capabilities to help achieving the strategy, and what are the effects of the strategies to both sides, and what is the influence means to the alignment of these two strategies?

ICT allowed Evertex, along with its suppliers and other business partners to fully implement the Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM). After the implementation, Evertex, along with others, experienced positive gains for itself. Some of the results obtained after the implementation were as

(1) The supply chain managers should address the sustainability issues and should look at the entire supply

Abstract Consideration is given to the convergence of supply chains and sustainability. In doing so, the focus on environmental management and operations is moved from local optimization

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.

Abstract Purpose – Increasingly, private sector companies are aiming to buy and supply products and services in a sustainable way, termed “sustainable supply chain management” (sustainable SCM), using purchasing and supply to reduce negative impacts on the environment, economy and society. There is often a gap between rhetoric and reality, with companies often accused of paying green lip service to sustainable SCM. This research aims to explore sustainable SCM issues in companies that have been recognized as leaders in their sectors, and investigate what

This Piece of Essay will show in depth that what is meant by “Sustainable Supply Chain Management” and its relation to Malaysian Palm Oil industry. The use of Supply chain management in Malaysian palm oil industry and diverse areas will be discussed. Further discussing what businesses and managers should consider utilising Malaysian palm oil like the challenges and downstream issues. This will be linked with different perspective like diverse workforce, issues of social responsibility and challenges of leadership. Then further discussing ethical responsibilities of consumers of palm oil industries.

‘EcoVadis’ established a business model that has the objective of ‘becoming a trusted partner of procurement organizations aiming at implementing sustainable supply management practices’. In doing so, EcoVadis confidently established its competitive advantage by uniting the broad social concern (and hence value placed upon) sustainability in all aspects of supply chains with rapidly evolving consumer and industry demands. EcoVadis was co-founded by Pierre-François Thaler, an electrical engineer with experience in purchasing. The firm provides a particular service that allows large organisations to assess the environmental and social performance of their suppliers. This supply chain analysis, verification and certification service, is the product that EcoVadis sells.

Such as, supply chain manager could adopt several technologies to save the usage of natural resource so that they certainly utilize them in the longer period, although company could pay much more cost in the initial step as business sacrifice. According to Fowler and Hope, social responsibility plays an important role in sustainability operation (2011). This concept drives company to build up advanced control structure and powerful social considering during operation process. In addition, there are increasing numbers of people paying attention on preventing environment and expect to retain suitable environment for future generations, otherwise the worse environment directly destroy our society, even our live place will disappear. Consequently, supply chain manager will involve protecting environment in business process by restrict raw material or manage the produce approach for minimizing the impacting of environment. Under this strategy, GImenez and Ventura strongly propose companies to adopt multiple tools in order to eliminate the negative influence of social environment, given lots of people were died by several pollutions.

The increase in the level of consumption of material and energy by economic growth leads to environmental issues and problems of resources depletion. Organisations has become increasingly notable to balance the economic and environmental performance due to pressure of competition and community . A new concept of environmental friendliness, also known as sustainable supply chain or green supply chain is now trending in various organisations involved in supply chain business. The green supply chain management is the process of combination of environment protection and day to day supply chain management, including its different parts like material sourcing, designing of product, selection of material, manufacturing process and