Title: Investigation on key drivers for sustainable supply chain management implementation: empirical evidence from manufacturing industry

Authors: Kuei-Kuei Lai; Priyanka Verma; Vimal Kumar

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng, Taichung – 41349, Taiwan ' Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng, Taichung – 41349, Taiwan ' Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufeng, Taichung – 41349, Taiwan

Abstract: Sustainability in supply chain is designed to keep the consistent procedure without disturbing the ecological condition. The importance of sustainable in supply chain is to enhance the productivity even as reducing financial resources at same time. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the successful key drivers for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) implementation in context of Indian manufacturing industry. A mixed method approach, viz., Pareto analysis and a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) grey relational analysis (GRA) has been used. A total ten successful key drivers to implement sustainability in supply chain based on organisational perspective are investigated by Pareto analysis, expert's judgments and literature review. Further, GRA has been used to calculate the relative positioning among the identified key drivers. The result of this study reveals that SSC10 (positive organisational culture), SSC5 (availability of information), SSC1 (initiation of management commitment), and SSC7 (strategic planning) are stood at first four key drivers that have played an important role for the success of sustainable supply chain. The findings of the present research work can also assist supply chain stakeholders in their organisation of significant strategies.

Keywords: supply chain management; sustainability; manufacturing industry; multi-criteria decision-making; MCDM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2025.150281

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2025 Vol.52 No.4, pp.545 - 563

Received: 22 Feb 2023
Accepted: 15 Jul 2023
Published online: 08 Dec 2025 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article