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Green Logistics

The University of Sydney    

Discuss appropriate ‘green’ strategies that can be implemented in supply chains and analyse the impact on all supply chain members

Warinee Prapai

Submission Date: Friday, 21 April 2006
Unit of Study: TPTM6170, Strategy and Supply Chain Management
Degree Enrolled In: Master of International Business (MIB) and Master of Logistics Management (MLM)
Student No: 305044575

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 GREEN STRATEGIES AND LEAN STRATEGIES 1
3 REVERSE LOGISTICS STRATEGY 2
4 E-LOGISTICS STRATEGY 3
4.1 Forward E-logistics 3
4.1.1 Procurement 3
4.1.2 Inventory Management and Warehousing 3
4.1.3 Transportation and Delivery Management 4
4.2 Reverse E-logistics 4
5 GREEN PURCHASING STRATEGY 5
5.1 Green Purchasing Policy 5
5.2 Supplier Selection Process 5
5.3 Supplier’s Environmental Evaluation Process 6
5.4 Raw Materials and Design Process Selection 6
6 IMPACT ON SUPPLY CHAIN MEMBERS 7
6.1 Impact of Reverse Logistics Strategy 7
6.2 Impact of E-logistics Strategy 7
6.3 Impact of Green Purchasing Strategy 8
7 CONCLUSION 9
8 REFERENCES 10
APPENDIX 1: COMPARISON OF REVERSE LOGISTICS 14
AND GREEN LOGISTICS
APPENDIX 2: IMPACT OF EFFECTIVE RETURN MANAGEMENT 16


1 INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, the environmental issues are a part of corporate strategies and sustain companies’ success (Parker, 2000). The pressure of environmental concerns by government legislation, changing customer demands, the development of international certification standards (ISO), and aggressive competition are outstanding reasons that why businesses should implement green/environmental strategies into their supply chains (Enarsson, 1997; Murphy and Poist, 2003).

The implementation of green strategies in supply chains and the impact of green strategies on supply chain participants are discussed and analyzed in this paper.

2 GREEN STRATEGIES AND LEAN STRATEGIES
According to Parker (2000), “green strategies are ecocentric strategies...