s companies began to interact with their suppliers
electronically over the last decade, SCM has inherited the
forefront of organizational practice to form inter-functional
operations within their organizations and to forge electronic
connections with key customers [7] [8]. The main objectives
of the SCM function include cost reduction, improvement
and innovation of end-
to
-end processes between firms and
their customers and suppliers, improved communication and
interaction among supply chain partners, and improved
performance and productivity in a way that benefits all
contributors in the supply chain [9]. Fig. 1 describes the
typical life cycle of supply in which designing the supply
chain concurrently with the product is a SCM best practice.
Although similar to the concept of SCM, the boundary of
GSCM is dependent on the supply chain concurrently with
th
e product; however, adding the „Green‟ component to SCM
in
vol
ves addressing the influence and relationships between
SCM and the natural environment [1]. Accordingly, GSCM
recognizes the disproportionate environmental impact of
supply chain processes in an organization