What is the Green Supply Chain?
To date, there is no industry-accepted definition of a green supply chain. What most practitioners would agree on is that greening a supply chain is a continuous quest, similar to concepts like kaizen or lean. In that sense, companies strive to green their supply chains or make them greener. A company that is working on greening its supply chain seeks to minimize the environmental footprint of the supply chain, while accounting for the tradeoffs between sustainability goals and other business objectives like efficiency, profitability, or improved customer service. It’s essential for companies to orchestrate their greening efforts across all supply chain processes, starting with product development, sourcing, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, demand fulfillment, and end-of-life management. With that said, greening cannot happen independently of all the advancements we have accomplished in building and managing optimized supply chains. Greening becomes another goal—at times align
