Organizational Green Supply Chain Management Capability Assessment: A Hybrid Group Decision Making Model Application

Editorial

“…Shannon Havins, in her article, brings together the previous three papers by emphasizing the practical need for further development of decision support systems for project selection in an R&D environment. She reinforces the need to take advantage of the latest tools from researchers and practitioners-many of which are evident in our many EMR papers, such as [3] and [4], some are R&D focused, but others are general enough to be applied to the R&D environment. The aspects that make the innovation and R&D project environment unique should be carefully considered.…”

Green Transportation in Green Supply Chain Management

“…The broader concept behind the implementation of the green practices in supply chain management is to eliminate excessive use of material and production of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) gas and abolish the use of recycled goods [6]. GSCM practices have also included many diverse dimensions such as the corporate engagements with the customers and suppliers which are helpful in integrating the green practices, green transportation, and reverse logistics [15].…”

“…It is a crucial step for any organizations to ensure that the purchasing of all their raw materials should be in accordance with the environmental objectives. The management of procurement and green purchasing are assigned to audit and inspect whether their supply chain department is implementing green practices in purchasing the raw materials and other purchase-related activities [15]. Generally, activities of green purchasing are complied with approaches including purchasing the goods or services that are environmentally friendly, evaluating products with internal and external auditors prior to their purchasing, or assisting the suppliers to enhance their functions in compliance with ecological goods and services [19].…”

“…These practices require upper management guidance as it is associated with the overall life cycle management [8]. The management of organizational total quality environment has broadened the GSCM concept to various operations including green designing of products as well as infrastructure, green procurements, ecological transportations (vehicles), eco-friendly logistics, and reverse logistics as well as recycling [15]. Diagrammatic Representations of the Working of Green Transportation in the Structure of Green Supply Chain Management (Figure 1).…”

Managing Your Supply Chain Pantry: Food Waste Mitigation Through Inventory Control

“…To achieve the above goal and insight for management, information on these metrics need to be available to various supply chain stakeholders, which require attempts in putting this information into existing decision support systems for green supply chain management (Govindan et al;Sun and Zhu, 2018), as it can greatly benefit inventory and operations management of the food supply chain.…”