In our review, we follow to a large extent the supply chain
structure given by Chopra and Meindl (2010). First we discuss
the main physical drivers behind a supply chain and examine transportation in Section 2, products and inventories in Section 3
and facilities in Section 4.We investigate the main choices in these
drivers which affect environmental performance.
We consider these options in the three decision phases of a supply
chain, namely design, planning and control, while we also discuss
reverse supply chains. In Section 5, we discuss the design of a
supply chain and how the combination of the drivers affects the
environment. Section 6 examines the design of reverse and closed
loop supply chains. Section 7 focuses on the three cross functional
drivers, viz. sourcing, planning and pricing (revenue management)
and in Section 8 we take a closer look at the operational planning of
supply chains. Green supply chain metrics are examined in Sections
9 and 10 describes the OR methods that helps in making
the trade-offs in green logistics, viz. multi-criteria decision making.
Fig. 1 describes the proposed framework of this paper.