Discussion and conclusion
The drivers involved in the implementation of green supply
chain management for thefirmunder study pose considerable challenges
for the management of the firm. Due to the complexity of
GSCM practices, customer and cost pressures and regulation uncertainty,
implementing GSCM is considered as a thankless task that
increases overall product cost (Hsu and Hu, 2008). Decision makers
must be aware of the relative importance of the various drivers and
the techniques for implementing them. Highlighting the 11 types of
drivers, an ISM model was developed and the interaction between
these drivers were analyzed for the firm under study using the ISM
model and MICMAC analysis.
From Fig. 4, it is evident that government regulation and legislation
and reverse logistics are significant drivers to achieve
the collaboration between product designers and suppliers to
reduce and eliminate product environmental impact driver, which
is in tern critical to achieving the GSCM certification of suppliers’
environmental management system driver. Environmental
collaboration with suppliers, Environmental collaboration with
customers and ISO 14001 certification are placed at an intermediate
level of the ISM model. Green design, integrating quality environmental
management into the planning and operation process,
reducing energy consumption, and reusing and recycling materials
and packaging drivers are at the top level of the ISM hierarchy.