Emerging Needs and Importance of Green Supply Chain Management - A Case Study

Green Supply Chain management (GSCM) focus on environment friendly supply chain i. e. green concept from design part to material procurement, green operation and green logistics. This need has emerged due to increasing environment disturbances with the increase in growth of production and consumption rate in organizations. Apart from warehousing and logistics operations whether in-house or outsourced one, green initiatives on suppliers end, has already been started from more than a decade. The present study is carried out from related research papers and journals with basic objective to gain theoretical understanding on the significance of green supply chain management, its need and impact on environment in general. A case study of a leading automobile company based in Delhi-NCR has been done to understand the green practices adopted by this firm through an empirical evidence.