Green Supply Chain towards Sustainable Development

Despite the pressure from global warming and environmental issues, there are many potential benefits of making the supply chain greener. Whether the supply chain structure is reorganized or whether a new network is synthesized, the greener policies and approaches are always cost-saving and are better for branding. Green supply chain management (GSCM) exposes the applications of the most important sustainable development issues. It demonstrates how green technologies and practices can be implemented and, in line with this, the motivation of saving money and increasing efficiency.

This work presents the development of GSC concept from different applications. In the first section, an overview and discussion of the GSCM development are presented and remarkable extensions of GSCM highlighted. The second section presents the fundamentals of model formulation and superstructure synthesis of the GSC network for optimization purposes. The implementation of green technologies, LCA approach, advanced approach for GSCM and case studies are demonstrated.