“Integrating environmental thinking into supply-chain management, including
product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, delivery of
the final product to the consumers as well as end-of-life management of the product
after its useful life”
GSCM is designed to incorporate environmental considerations into decision
making at each inbound logistics stage of materials management all the way through
to the outbound logistics stage of post-consumer disposal and the ‘closing-the-loop’
concept of reverse logistics
In short, GSCM adds a green context to the concept of SCM. GSCM combines
environmental concerns into flows of products and services inside and outside of a firm’s
boundaries