Greening Supply Chain Management

Abstract

The last few decades have seen an increase in environmental consciousness. More and more people are aware of the world’s environmental problems such as global warming, toxic substance usage and the decrease of non-replenishable resources. Governments have released campaigns to promote this problem to people. Several logistic organizations responded to this by applying green principles to their company, such as using environmental friendly raw materials, reducing the usage of fossil based power and using recycled papers for packaging. Green supply chain management (GSCM) has been emerging in the last few years. This idea covers every stage in the manufacture from the first to the last stage of the life cycle, i.e. from product design to recycling. Transportation cannot be replaced as it is a part of the production chain. Societies are horizontally and vertically differential. The manpower, the stock, the semifinished and finished products must be transported, thus the importance of the transport sector is unquestionable. The purpose of this paper is to describe the importance of greening the supply chain.