AN INTENSIVE ANALYSIS ON GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Environment friendliness and sustainability have been the talk of the town and have become a major part of any business so there is a growing need for integrating robust environment conscious practices in to supply chain management research and this newly found consciousness towards the environment gave birth to Green Supply Chain Management. Green supply chain management broadly includes inbound logistics, production, outbound logistics, marketing and reverse logistics. As the research in this area has increased, there have been multiple literature reviews in this field focusing on performance measurement, supplier/vendor evaluation, analytical modelling efforts, etc. This paper researches already existing papers and aims to find out what is the definition of a green supply chain, focuses on what does a modern green supply chain management constitutes, how this concept of green supply chain management been developed over time what the past was, what the present is and what could be the future. Now to narrow down the scope of research we focus on what all has been done in the field of green supply chain management in developing countries, what is the scope of green supply chain in India and what has already happened in India in this field. Also, the focus is on the trends and challenges in this field broadly and in India and how is it implemented across the world by companies and also can the already existing practices and methods can be directly lifted from developed countries and implemented in countries like India. The findings and interpretations will be summarized and main issues highlighted. By doing this we aim to have a robust knowledge and establish what is the state and scope of green supply chain management in India and what are problems associated with it while also opening possible research area in this field for the countries like India.