Title: Sustainable supply chain: vendor and customer participation

Authors: Sanjeev Kumar; Somnath Chattopadhyaya; Vinay Sharma

Addresses: Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 826004, Jharkhand, India. ' ME&MME Department, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 826004, Jharkhand, India. ' Production Engineering Department, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, 835215, Jharkhand, India

Abstract: Sustainable (green) supply chain management has emerged as a proactive approach for improving environmental performance of processes and products in accordance with the requirements of environmental regulations. Study empirically investigates the construct of and the scale for evaluating sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices implementation among manufacturers. With data collected from Indian small and medium sized enterprises, measurement models of vendor and customer participation and implementation were tested and compared by 'mean score', 't'-test and 'p'-test. The assessments presented are based on parts of the data and information collected through the execution of the competitive strategies and best practices benchmarking questionnaire from 60 small and 59 medium size enterprises. Study focuses on present scenario of participation of vendor and customer for sustainable supply chain practices of small and medium sized enterprises in India.

Keywords: sustainable supply chains; SSC; survey; manufacturing industry; small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; modelling; vendor participation; customer participation; supply chain management; SCM; green supply chains; India; environmental performance; sustainability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMOM.2012.049122

International Journal of Modelling in Operations Management, 2012 Vol.2 No.4, pp.360 - 377

Published online: 21 Aug 2014 *

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