SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

A Boundaries and Flow Perspective of Green Supply Chain Management (Joseph, 2010)
By: Mohd Nazri bin Salim M051110007
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Overview
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major comprehensive, overlapping, boundaries were defined and research and practice pertinent to these boundaries were identified. As part of the systemic perspective, five major and inter-related flows that green supply chains need to manage within the boundaries are identified.

Introduction What is green supply chain

the

process of using environmentally friendly inputs and transforming these inputs into outputs that can be reclaimed and re-used at the end of their lifecycle thus, creating a sustainable supply chain (Patrick, 2007)

What is sustainable?
Meeting

the current needs without hindering the future needs in terms of economic, environmental & social challenges (EPA, 2005)

Green Supply Chain Overview

A green supply chain diagram with stages and relationships

Industrial Environmental Practices Related To Green Supply Chain Management

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) 1

Environmental management system (EMS) refers to the management of an organization's environmental programs in a comprehensive, systematic, planned and documented manner. EMS adopters are engaging their supply chains by instituting procedures to assess their suppliers environmental influences, requiring suppliers to minimize their environmental impacts, tracking waste in their operating systems, adopting their own EMS, and informing buyers of ways to minimize their environmental impact (Darnall et al., 2008; Gonzalez et al., 2008).

Industrial Ecology & Industrial Symbiosis 2

Within

industrial symbiosis the goal is to make waste flows into value adding flows of material, energy and other productive resources.

Product Stewardship & Extended Product Responsibility 3

Product

stewardship is the management of a product throughout its life cycle including its distribution, usage and disposal typically associated with extended producer responsibility (Yu et al., 2008). Product stewardship requires that an organization manage its products and involve members of its supply chain

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Life Cycle Analysis

Is

the improvement, relationships, and information related to the management of products and materials and their sources and impacts throughout a products life cycle (Linnanen, 1995).

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Main Phases of physical life cycle and interaction with ecosphere

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Eco-design & Design for the Environment 5

DFE

can be defined as a methodology directed at the systematic reduction or elimination of the environmental impacts implicated in the whole life cycle of a product, from the extraction of raw materials to disposal. This methodology is based on evaluating the potential impacts throughout the entire course of the design process.

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The concept of DfE

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Green supply chains: a boundaries perspective

Supply

chains consist of and span many boundaries. To effectively manage the environmental aspects of supply chains, policy makers, organizations, and managers need to understand various reaches of supply chains and their environmental implications over these boundaries.

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Green supply chains: a boundaries perspective

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9 Boundaries in Green Supply Chain

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3. 4. 5.

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7. 8. 9.

Organizational Boundaries Proximal Boundaries Political Boundaries Informational Boundaries Temporal Boundaries Legal Boundaries Cultural Boundaries Economic Boundaries Technological Boundaries

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Green Supply Chain Flows

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Material Flows

Parts, components, raw material & finished goods

Energy Capital/money

Service Flows

Financial Flows

Information & Knowledge Flows Waste Flows

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Integration of Flows & Boundaries

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1. Inter-Dependency
The

interaction and effectiveness of green supply chain management through the joint adoption of other environmental practices such as environmental management systems and eco-design will be influenced by the type of boundaries that are limiting the scope of these practices. Determine the scales of boundaries identification is trivial/important.

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Theory application and development

Ecological

modernization theory (Berger et al., 2001; Welford and Hills, 2003) which arises from the policy literature, also can be used to help identify various boundary relationships and the management of flows.

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Green supply to green demand

Emphasize

more green demand by the customer instead of green supply.

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