Green Supply Chain Management - Global Opportunities and Challenges A Case Study
Abstract— In the recent past, Chinas emergence as an economic giant has not only affected regional supply chains; but has even challenged the existing global logistics practices. Most of the destinations of Chinese shipping vessels are Middle East, Europe or North America. These vessels customarily follow the longer route from China to Singapore, Sri Lanka, Middle East and onwards to Europe or North America. Agility, leanness, Just-In-Time (JIT) and postponement are a few of the challenging concepts for competitiveness and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Globalization has put an added enormous pressure on techniques and practices of SCM. This study focuses on identification of all potential route options from central China to Middle East, Europe and North America as well as finding best possible shortest route. Optimization in terms of distances, lead time and fuel consumption will lead to economic-soundness, enhanced financial gains as well as improvement in SCM practices. This optimally identified shorter route will also offer strategic advantage to the global-village; especially to South East Asia, Middle East, Europe and North America. This study will contribute towards the IN-Global initiative for the reduction in greenhouse gases and global warming.
Keywords - Green Supply Chain Management Optimized Logistics Agile Just-in-Time Globalization
Rai Waqas Azfar Khan Nawar Khan Muhammad Abbas Chaudhary
Dept. of Engineering Management, College of E&ME National University of Science & Technology Rawalpi University of Engineering & TechnologyTaxila, Pakistan.
国际会议
大连
英文
5-9
2011-07-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）