Impact of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Environment Performance and Competitive Advantage

Impact of Green Supply Chain Management Practices on Environment Performance and Competitive Advantage

Abstract 
Supply chain contains all roles which is involved through directly or indirectly to fulfil the customer demand.  The  important  factors involved  in supply chain  are  customer,  manufacturer,  purchasing, wholesaler,  transportation  and  retailers.  Supply  chain  management  take  the  responsibility  of designing, planning, executing, controlling and monitoring of supply chain activity with the purpose of building competitive infrastructure, leveraging global logistics and much more. Green supply chain management introduce the sustainability in development of every field of production and operational management. So that, the present supply chain management aims to find out the combination among environmental performance, green suppliers, competitive advantages and green innovation in the field of industries as we know  industrial  sector  is  very important  for all  developing countries.  So  after finding and analyzing the GSCM practices, these are being applied in manufacturing of poles. Our result  shows  that  there  is  positive  relation  between  environmental  performance  and  competitive advantages  with  the  use  of  green  supply  chain  management  practices  i.e.  Green  supplier,  green innovation  and  green  manufacturing.  It  shows  an  important  positive  relationship  among  green innovation  with  environmental  performance  and  environmental  performance  with  competitive advantage. Keywords: supply chain management; logistics; environmental performance; competitive advantage