IMPACT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PRACTICE IN PRODUCTION INDUSTRY: A REVIEW.

Green Supply Chain management means environment friendly supply chain management in industries. There are different motivators for companies to switch to 'green' in their supply chain. Ordinary supply chain management involves several extraction and exploitation of the natural resources. But now a day, the environmental sustainability has been an important issue to business practice. Since the early 1990's, manufacturers have been faced with pressure to address Environmental Management (EM) in their supply chains. Adding the 'green' concept to the 'supply chain' concept adds a new paradigm where the supply chain will have a direct relation to the environment. The green supply chain also includes reduction of usage of raw materials, recycling, reuse and the substitution of materials etc. The practice of monitoring of environment friendly purchasing, manufacturing, supplying, marketing, delivering of the final product to the consumer are also parts of green supply chain management.