Unlike standard supply chains, green supply chains are made to ensure that value creation, rather than hazard and waste, accumulates at each step, from the design to removal and revival. As a primer, this note is suitable for executive pupils, or undergraduate, MBA investigating corporate answer to environmental degradation, increasing energy and materials costs, and the growing challenges of international world-wide supply chains.
Handling complicated relationships and flows of substances across companies and cultures introduces a vital challenge for supply chains that are green. But "greening" a supply chain nets numerous benefits.
PUBLICATION DATE: October 21, 2009 PRODUCT #: UV2048-PDF-ENG
This is just an excerpt. This case is about ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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