Motivations and barriers to the adoption of green supply chain practices among 3PLs

Exploring the Adoption of Sustainable Supply Chain Practices in Australia: Current Practices and Adoption Motivations

Organizations worldwide are developing an awareness of the importance to adopt sustainable practices within their supply chain operations. Many forward looking organizations have even already begun implementing these practices in consultation with their supply chain partners. However, adoption of these practices is not straightforward and is reported to be slower than expected despite the enorm...

Adoption of Green Supply Chain Practices in Taiwan’s Logistics Industry

Factors influencing the adoption of green supply chain practices for the logistics industry in Taiwan from the perspective of technology, organization and environment are studied. The data came from a questionnaire survey on logistics companies in Taiwan, and 162 samples were analyzed. According to the survey results, all the factors have positive influences on the adoption of green supply chai...

Green Supply Chain Management Practices

Almost all the countries in the world are considering how they can respond to environmental problems through using eco-friendly processes and products. The supply chain is one of the main drivers causing significant environmental issues such as emissions. As a result, the idea of green supply chains have been consider to address these environmental problems through buyer–supplier alliances. In ...

Green supply chain management practices and performance

Motivations and barriers in using distributed supply chain simulation

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is a technique that is used by analysts to take informed decisions regarding existing or a proposed systems of interest. DES models typically represent the processes associated with various business units. However, in the case of supply chains more than one business unit may need to be modelled as different organisations may be responsible for various supply chai...