Green Supply Chain Management

Program

Year of Study

Semester

Course Type

B.B.A

3rd   Year

V

Core Course

Course Description:

Green Supply Chain Management will focus on the fundamental strategies, tools and techniques required to analyse and design environmentally sustainable supply chain systems. Topics covered include: Closed-loop supply chains, reverse logistics systems, carbon foot printing, life-cycle analysis and supply chain sustainability strategy.

Class sessions will combine presentations, case discussions and guest speakers. All students will work on a course-long team project that critically evaluates the environmental supply chain strategy of an industry or a publicly traded company.

 Course Outcomes:

CO.1: Explain the fundamental concepts of Green Supply Chain.

CO.2: Understand the Closed-loop Supply Chain.

CO.3: Understand the various tools of Product Eco-Design.

CO.4: Explain the Green Procurement and Purchasing

CO.5: Identify the Green Supplier Development.

CO.6: Illustrate the 4Re’s.

CO.7: Explain the Lean Manufacturing for Green Manufacturing.

CO.8: Illustrate the Closing the Loop: Reverse Logistics.

CO.9: Explain the applications of Green Logistics and Transportation


Unit no

Topic

Content

1

Introduction

Introduction – Traditional Supply Chain and Green Supply Chain – Environmental Concern and Supply Chain – Closed-loop Supply Chain – Corporate Environmental Management – Green

Supply Chain (GSCM): Definition, Basic Concepts – GSCM Practices

2

Eco-Design

 

Design for the Environment (DFE) or Eco-Design – Eco-Design and Supplier Relationships –Definitions of Eco-Design – Tools of Product Eco-Design – Involving suppliers in product eco-design: Drivers, Challenges and Successful factors

3

Green Purchasing

Green Procurement and Purchasing – Definitions of green purchasing – Drivers of green purchasing – Green purchasing strategies – Green purchasing performance measurement –Green Supplier Development and Collaboration.

4

Green Manufacturing

 

Green Manufacturing or Production: Evolution, Definitions – 4Re’s: recycling, remanufacturing, reuse and reduction – Closed-loop Manufacturing – ISO 14000 systems – Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) – Lean Manufacturing for Green Manufacturing or Production.

5

Green Logistics And Transportation

 

Green Logistics and Transportation – Definitions of Green Logistics – Critical drivers of Green Logistics – Green transportation and logistics practices – Environmental impacts of transportation and logistics – Closing the Loop: Reverse Logistics

Learning Resources:

Sno

Type

Details

1

Recommended Text Book

1.     Joseph Sarkis, Yijie Dou. Green Supply Chain Management: A Concise Introduction, Routledge, 2017.

2.     Charisios Achillas, Dionysis D. Bochtis, Dimitrios Aidonis, Dimitris Folinas. Green Supply Chain Management, Routledge, 2018.

2

Reference Books

1.     Hsiao-Fan Wang, Surendra M. Gupta. Green Supply Chain Management: Product Life Cycle Approach, McGraw Hill publishing, 2011

2.     Stuart Emmett, Vivek Sood. Green Supply Chains: An Action Manifes by Stuart Emmett, Wiley publications, 2010

3

Recommended Magazines

1.     BOSS Magazine

 

Recommended Journal

1.     Green Supply Chain Management: A Review", International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT)

5

Recommended Websites

1.     https://www.supplychaindigital.com/sustainability-0

2.     https://thebossmagazine.com/green-supply-chain/

6

Recommended Tech- Talks

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4.     https://supplychaingamechanger.com/the-green-supply-chain-true-sustainability-or-just-one-big-marketing-stunt/

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