In early environmental management frameworks,
operating managers were involved
only at arm’s length. Separate organizational
units had responsibility for ensuring environmental
excellence in product development,
process design, operations, logistics, marketing,
regulatory compliance and waste management.
Today, this has changed. As in the quality
revolution of the 1980s and the supply-chain
revolution of the 1990s, it has become clear
that the best practices call for integration
of environmental management with ongoing
operations.
Green supply-chain management (GrSCM)
is gaining increasing interest among researchers
and practitioners of operations and supplychain
management. The growing importance
of GrSCM is driven mainly by the escalating
deterioration of the environment, e.g. diminishing
raw material resources, overflowing waste