Supply Chain Management Report 2022

Running head: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGMENT
Supply Chain Management
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Executive summary
The purpose of this paper is to discuss about Green Procurement related to Supply Chain
Management. The report aims to have emphasis on Kerry Logistics’ procurement practice of
being environment friendly by increasing the production of eco-friendly products which are safe
for human health as well as away from risk. The report further aims to discuss about company’s
implementation of Green Procurement and it recommends the company with the advise to
improve with its sustainability through Green practices in future related to its manufacturing and
production. The paper also aims to include the supply chain solutions to the stakeholders of the
company.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature review..............................................................................................................................3
Green Supply Chain Practices......................................................................................................3
Green Purchasing.........................................................................................................................4
Eco-design....................................................................................................................................4
Chronology of Green Supply Chain Management.......................................................................4
Case study........................................................................................................................................5
Supply chain management and environment...............................................................................5
Green Procurement system in environmental conservation and its improvement.......................5
Green Procurement practice of Supply Chain providing solutions..............................................6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The purpose for choosing this topic is to make clear study about green procurement of
supply chain management (Chin et al., 2015). This topic emphasizes on importance of green
procurement supply chain management for organization. The company uses Green Procurement
supply chain management such that purchase of products do have less negative impact on
environment as well as on human being’s health. This would include use of operations,
manufacturing as well as raw materials required for production process. The topic has also been
selected to know that using green procurement system how an organization can get rid of
financial as well as environmental risk. Importance of the topic lies on how green procurement
system can be benefitting in terms of eco-efficiency, management of risk and also how it can
bring about improvement into performance of the environment. It also shows that if green
procurement is used for healthy environment purpose in that case how well procurement process
can lead to reduction of wastes and how does it bring about reduction in costs (Blome, Hollas &
Paulraj, 2014). Green procurement process of supply chain emphasizes on ethics as well as on
economic related concerns.
Literature review
Green Supply Chain Practices
Green Supply Chain Practices is used to motivate organization activities with
environmental management using environment management practices through supply chain
system and helps to maintain good relationship between organization and its suppliers(Lee,
2008)