Green Supply Chain Management: A State of the Art Literature

Authors

  • Meet Shah Research Scholar, MCA, Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Career Development and Research (TIMSCDR), Mumbai, Maharastra, India.
  • Pooja Singh Research Scholar, MCA, Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Career Development and Research (TIMSCDR), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Keywords:

Green Supply Chain, Sustainable Development Green Purchasing, Green Design, Reverse Logistics, Green Manufacturing, Green Packaging

Abstract

Green Supply Chain Management is defined as “the process of making use of environment-friendly inputs and transforming these inputs
into outputs that can be disciplined, collected, selected and re-used at the end of their life cycle analysis thus, creating a sustainable and
provision of carry chain. GSCM is one of the most recent innovations for the upgrading and advancements of capabilities of Supply Chain
Management. The main aim of approaching towards this topic of this paper is to briefly and very abstractly examining and determining the
text of the Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) over the last three decades. The principle behaviour that came out of the texts are: Green
operations, Green designs, Green manufacturing, Reverse logistics and Waste management. This paper also discusses the key drivers for
green initiatives include government fulfilment, better user and general relations and project efficiency.

 

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Published

2021-01-16

How to Cite

Meet Shah, & Pooja Singh. (2021). Green Supply Chain Management: A State of the Art Literature. Journal of Advanced Research in Quality Control & Management, 5(2), 4-6. Retrieved from https://www.adrjournalshouse.com/index.php/Journal-QualityControl-Mgt/article/view/1167