Green Supply Chains: An Action Manifesto - Hardcover

This book provides a comprehensive methodology strategic overview, and an actionable plan and tool kit for creating, managing, and sustaining green supply chain. Based on solid research and illustrated with case studies, the book gives a holistic view of the green supply chains through recent decades traces how businesses and supply chains have always historically moved out of step with each other, and creates a map of the future of the green supply chains. Ideal for CEOs, leaders, directors, and managers who want an actionable plan toward green supply chains.

This book answers the following five fundamental questions:

1. What are the tangible and intangible benefits of moving towards a Green Supply Chain?
2. What are the costs, both direct, and indirect?
3. What influence do we have over our suppliers, their suppliers and our customers that would allow us to jointly work together and move the supply chain towards a green supply chain?
4. How will we communicate and measure our progress towards the green supply chain to the key stakeholders? How will we engage them?
5. What barriers to Green Supply Chains can be expected and how can these be overcome?

For all those responsible for steering supply chain decisions this book will be an invaluable asset, particularly as the ‘greening of business’ grows ever important.