Green Supply Chain Management : Green Practices

Abstract

Due to globalization and raising consciousness of environmental problems, companies start to implement one or more green supply chain management practices in their processes and products in order to improve environmental performance. Green supply chain management is a framework that incorporates environmental thinking in every aspect of supply chain management. The main objective of this thesis is to discover best practices and techniques of green supply chain management and its part that are implemented by companies all over the world. The author believes that the information provided in the thesis will be useful for entrepreneurs. The thesis is fully based on theoretical research. The author describes the types of impact business has on the environment and how to measure it by life cycle assessment. In addition, the author introduces green supply chain management and green practices: green purchasing, green design, green manufacturing, green distribution and reverse logistics.