Green Supply Chain Management Impact on Lean SCM and Overall Performance on an Organization an Empirical Study With Reference to Automobile Industry

Abstract

Global Warming, Air Pollution, Water quality degradation, and widespread damage to biodiversity are few of the significant environmental impacts caused due to ever newlineincreasing Industrial Activities worldwide. Most of these impacts arise from supply chain activities in manufacturing organizations. A large amount of unnecessary waste or emissions is being produced in these supply chain activities. The need of time is to newlinefind a competitive supply chain strategy for Organizations with benefits to newlineenvironment. Lean and Green are the appropriate strategies recommended for newlinecompetitiveness and sustainability, but the grey area is their integration and impact on newlineeach other. Lean Practices being followed since long and are very well recognized and accepted in the Organizations, whereas Green Concept is relatively new and still newlinestruggling to find its way in the Industry supply chains. In View of current newlineenvironmental scenario, there is huge pressure on Industry to build and adopt process, favorable to environmental sustainability. Green Supply Chain is the option available but it needs to be linked with Lean Practices to find a competitive edge with benefits to Organization and contribution to nature. Automobile Industry is one of the biggest industry segments in Indian Economy and therefore this sector is selected for the study. This Study aims to identify key practices of Lean and Green Supply Chain strategies and their inter linkages in newlineterms of issues and impacts. The study highlights the impact of Green Supply chain activities on Lean performance and overall performance of an organization. This study also demonstrates the benefits of using Recyclable Packaging over conventional packaging i.e. wood, cardboard boxes etc. Data Collection was done through Questionnaire Survey and personal interviews. Fuzzy AHP Approach, QFD Approach, Factor Analysis and Structural equation modeling carried out to analyze the data. newline newline