Vol: 5, Issue: 2 2015

Page: 01-11

A Study on the Adoption of Green Supply Chain Initiatives Among Small and Medium Enterprises and its Benefits for the Environment Sustainability

R. Rengarajan, Dr. C. Gnanaprakasam, Dr. K.G. Selvan

The surroundings of a living beings, together with nature and other living creatures, that contribute for evolution and growth as well as of danger and damage is called as environment. Environmental factors include all living and non living things that affect the existence, activities, and augmentation of an entity. The management concept of green supply chains was borne out of the necessity to conserve the environment on whose plane all the activities and processes of production and distribution of goods and services occur. Traditionally, Supply Chain Management (SCM) focused on the planning and integration of the network activities to procure unfinished sources, transform them into final products and then distribute to tail end user. Greening the supply chains initiates companies to efficiently use raw materials and conserve the environment by releasing biodegradable wastes. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been the backbone of the Indian economy which contributes major for the GDP of our country which is good and a bad thing is due to lack of awareness they adopt poor technology, unskilled labours who do not concern of environmental pollution. The aim of this paper is to initiate the adoption of green supply chains by the small and medium enterprises for the sustainable business growth.9