Green supply chain practices for intracity logistics and its consequences
Nasir, Sohaib Ahmed (2017)
Nasir, Sohaib Ahmed
2017
Industrial Engineering and Management
Talouden ja rakentamisen tiedekunta - Faculty of Business and Built Environment
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2017-08-16
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201708241736
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201708241736
Tiivistelmä
First recognized in 1990’s, the term Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has gained popularity amongst many companies and has become the pivotal point to address when it comes to supply chain management. More and more companies in contemporary world have now given the priority to green supply chain management, let it be green purchasing or green logistics. A sizable chunk of air pollution comes from logistics as last mile delivery. The other aspect is the rise in need of logistics in recent years. The blend of these two issues have made it utterly important for the companies to come up with such practices which would be a step towards solving them.
The aim is to draw the attention of the reader towards the question of what can be done to overcome or reduce the effects of these issues. Therefore, the objective of this research is to introduce the green practices concerning intracity logistics as last mile delivery. This study also draws the attention of the reader towards the implementation of newly born industry of electric vehicles for the purpose of logistics within the city, let it be a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company or a mail and delivery industry. The idea is to study the company’s existing strategies and measures in relation with green supply chain management and apply those strategies to the model designed in this thesis to see additional measures that can enhance the green supply chain further.
The result of the study is the introduction of practices and measures that is necessary to implement to resolve the issues related to intracity logistics. These measures presented in a model with some aims represents a feasible solution to each issue created with increased need of intracity logistics and green supply chain management. The overall result of the thesis is to figure out the imbalance between the green practices that a company implements. This imbalance is depicted in the model constructed throughout the thesis. With that, it can be made clear that which practices are needed to shift the balance and put efforts in all the issues pertaining intracity logistics. Lastly, it is essential to mention that different companies may require different set of practices due to varying supply chains.
The aim is to draw the attention of the reader towards the question of what can be done to overcome or reduce the effects of these issues. Therefore, the objective of this research is to introduce the green practices concerning intracity logistics as last mile delivery. This study also draws the attention of the reader towards the implementation of newly born industry of electric vehicles for the purpose of logistics within the city, let it be a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company or a mail and delivery industry. The idea is to study the company’s existing strategies and measures in relation with green supply chain management and apply those strategies to the model designed in this thesis to see additional measures that can enhance the green supply chain further.
The result of the study is the introduction of practices and measures that is necessary to implement to resolve the issues related to intracity logistics. These measures presented in a model with some aims represents a feasible solution to each issue created with increased need of intracity logistics and green supply chain management. The overall result of the thesis is to figure out the imbalance between the green practices that a company implements. This imbalance is depicted in the model constructed throughout the thesis. With that, it can be made clear that which practices are needed to shift the balance and put efforts in all the issues pertaining intracity logistics. Lastly, it is essential to mention that different companies may require different set of practices due to varying supply chains.