What Is a Green Chain?

The concept of green supply chain was first proposed by the Manufacturing Research Association of Michigan State University in 1996 in an "Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing (ERM)" study, also known as the Environmentally Conscious Supply Chain (ECSC) or Environmentally Supply Chain (ESC) is a modern management model that comprehensively considers environmental impacts and resource efficiency in the entire supply chain. It is based on green manufacturing theory and supply chain management technology. It involves suppliers, production plants, The purpose of sellers and users is to minimize the impact on the environment (negative effect) and the highest resource efficiency in the entire process of product acquisition, processing, packaging, warehousing, transportation, and disposal.

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In recent years, the world economy has continued to grow rapidly. Especially in China, with the increase of economic wealth, more and more resources are consumed.

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Green supply chain strengthens corporate internal management

As the situation of enterprises varies widely, and the mode of green supply chain management is also diverse, enterprises should carefully analyze their own conditions when deciding to implement green supply chain management. They must solve the problems that enterprises urgently need based on carrying capacity and actual conditions , And can take the faster effective link as a breakthrough, clearly understand the implementation goals, and ensure success.

Strengthen internal management of the enterprise, rethink, design and change the operation and assessment mechanism formed by functional departments under the old environment, effectively establish business processes across functional departments, reduce resource waste in the production process, save energy and reduce Environmental pollution.

Strengthen the environmental awareness of corporate leaders and employees, change the concept of senior corporate leaders, actively associate economic goals, environmental goals, and social goals with the supply chain to consider, and improve the environmental awareness of employees at all levels of the company through learning and training. Let employees understand the company's emphasis on environmental protection.

Implement green procurement. Try to purchase raw materials and components according to the needs of the enterprise, reduce the inventory of raw materials and components, and try to find substitutes for hazardous materials, and make full use of the excess equipment and materials of the enterprise.

Green supply chain strengthens environmental management of suppliers

The green supply process places higher requirements on suppliers. First of all, according to the manufacturer's own resources and capabilities, and strategic goals, the evaluation indicators should be adjusted appropriately. The set indicators should fully reflect the manufacturer's strategic intentions. Secondly, it emphasizes that suppliers and manufacturers recognize the environmental protection in terms of corporate culture and business philosophy, which is the basis for the formation of strategic partnerships among members of the supply chain; again, the members of the supply chain have sustainable competitiveness and innovation capabilities . Finally, there is comparability among suppliers, which facilitates the selection and comparison among multiple potential suppliers.

Green supply chain strengthens consumer environmental awareness

It is necessary to fully understand the importance of green consumption for sustainable development from the perspective of China's low level of per capita resource occupation, heavy resource load and high pressure. The development of green consumption can reduce the environmental damage caused by consumer behavior from the consumer terminal and curb the extensive management of producers, which is conducive to the realization of China's social and economic sustainable development goals. At the same time, the development of green consumption can not only improve people's consumption quality and physical health from high-quality and pollution-free consumption objects, but also improve the general public's awareness of environmental protection, green consumption and sustainable development through the transformation of concepts and behavior changes in the consumption process. Recognition.

Green supply chain strengthens environmental enforcement by management

As the technical level and capital of an enterprise are relatively limited, it is uncertain whether the production process of an enterprise will save resources, energy and reduce environmental pollution. In order to save costs, enterprises will appropriately modify the production process, but due to the influence of habits, experience, technology, equipment and funds, most enterprises have limited production mode modifications, and the effect cannot be well examined. Even if some enterprises have good benefits, they would like to carry out a major transformation of the production process to save resources and energy and reduce environmental pollution, and they are unwilling to take risks. In order to pursue short-term benefits, some companies even ignore environmental pollution. At this time, the strength of the whole society is required to participate. Law enforcement agencies have extensively and intensively publicized environmental protection, not only propagating the concept of green marketing to decision makers in various enterprises, but also the importance of ecological environment to consumers, and adopting different methods for education and training according to different targets.