Green Supply Chain Management

"Green Supply Chain Management" (GSCM) has managed to seize the raising interest among practitioners and researchers of operations and supply chain management. It includes all the stages of the production process: design, raw material purchasing, manufacture, delivery and, after its useful life, end-of-life management of the product. GSCM involves the integration of environmental thinking into supply chain management (SCM). It is an approach that targets the overall optimization of information flows and material flows along the value chain. Some companies have found GSCM a very interesting opportunity to keep earning money and taking care of the planet at the same time. The companies are able to call consumers’ attention to green products and services. In fact, several organizations have demonstrated the existence of a link between upgraded environmental production and positive gains. The major six activities of the supply chain; namely Green Sourcing & Procurement, Green Manufacturing, Green Warehousing, Green Distribution, Green Packaging, Green Transportation. This paper exposes the introduction of GSCM by taking Wal-Mart as an example.