The difference between traditional supply chain and green supply chain

The difference between traditional supply chain and green supply chain

After entering the 2 1 century, the trend of economic globalization is obvious and the competition is intensified. The competition between enterprises is not the competition between enterprises, but the competition between supply chains. Below I have sorted out the differences between the traditional supply chain and the green supply chain for you, hoping to help you:

In the early 1990s, foreign scholars studied the return logistics, focusing on how manufacturers can choose suitable raw materials and recycle products and packaging reasonably through environmental criteria, so as to achieve the goal of the lowest cost and the least impact on the environment. Later scholars adopted the analysis method of product life cycle, introduced the concept of enterprise ecology into the research of supply chain, and used ecological assessment tools to evaluate the environmental impact of the whole supply chain. 1996 The Manufacturing Research Association (MRC) of Michigan State University conducted a project? Environmental responsibility manufacturing? Research, formally put forward? Green supply chain? Concept. In Hart's literature, the author analyzes the influence of enterprise value chain on the whole environment. 1999, Bi Meng designed a supply chain model considering environmental factors. Hock studied the ecological balance in the actual operation of supply chain. Green supply chain theory is an interdisciplinary subject of environmental science and supply chain. Because there is no unified definition of supply chain itself, there is no mature definition of green supply chain. Referring to the common formulation of supply chain and the definition of green competitiveness, we can think that green supply chain is a modern management model that comprehensively considers environmental impact and resource efficiency in the whole supply chain. It is based on green competitiveness theory and supply chain management technology, involving suppliers, manufacturers, sellers and users. Through the close cooperation between internal departments and chain enterprises, the negative impact of the whole supply chain on the environment will be minimized with high resource efficiency in the whole process of material acquisition, processing, packaging, storage, transportation, use and scrapping, and the economic and social benefits of the whole supply chain will be coordinated and optimized. Whether enterprises can reduce costs, improve quality, reduce environmental pollution and save effective resources is a comprehensive evaluation of the performance of green supply chain.

The specific practices are mainly carried out by some big companies in Europe and America, such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, General Motors (GM), Procter & Gamble, Nike and many other enterprises. Among them, GM has also been recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a model enterprise to implement green supply chain management.

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The traditional supply chain management is only based on the management of maximizing the interests of enterprises in the supply chain. Although it also involves the saving of raw materials and energy, it only considers the cost of the enterprise and the improvement of the internal environment of the enterprise, but does not fully consider the impact of the selected scheme on the surrounding environment and people in the process of manufacturing and circulation, and does not consider how to treat, recycle and reuse the waste and emissions of the products. Therefore, its role in the sustainable development of resources and environment is very limited.

The traditional supply chain is often that enterprises purchase from raw materials and parts? Traffic? Processing and manufacturing? The process of distribution until final delivery to customers is regarded as an interlocking chain. The supply chain begins with raw material suppliers and ends with users. Is it the so-called? From cradle to grave? From cradle to grave 。

The traditional supply chain design, modeling and analysis is to design, plan and control the information flow, logistics and capital flow in the supply chain, so as to enhance the competitive strength and improve the efficiency and benefit of each member in the supply chain.

2. Green supply chain

Green supply chain? Green? Integrating this concept into the traditional supply chain can achieve the dual purposes of economic effect and environmental effect, which has important practical significance. It expands the traditional supply chain and considers the short-term and long-term impact on the environment in the whole life cycle of products. Its purpose is to make the whole process of products from material acquisition, processing, packaging, transportation, use to scrapping treatment have the least impact on the environment and the highest resource efficiency. By making full use of external enterprise resources with green advantages and establishing strategic alliances with enterprises with green competitiveness, enterprises can concentrate on consolidating and improving the core competence and business of green manufacturing. The proposal of green supply chain makes enterprises change from the traditional technology-based solution to comprehensive environmental management from the perspective of product life cycle, which not only achieves good results in solving environmental problems, but also brings potential benefits to enterprises. For example, environmental factors are considered when designing products, which avoids the cost of environmental governance in the future.

The expanded supply chain includes all the elements of the traditional supply chain, but a semi-closed chain including product and packaging recycling, reuse and recycling processors is added, among which? W? Stands for waste. It can be seen that the logistics in the green supply chain is not only ordinary raw materials, intermediate products and final products, but also a kind of? Green? Logistics. Wastes and wastes generated during production, damaged parts generated during transportation, storage and sales, and products eliminated by users must be recycled. When scrapped products or their parts can be recycled or reused as raw materials, there is no end to the green supply chain, right? From cradle to reproduction? (From cradle to reincarnation). Products that can be reused after treatment can be resold, parts that can be reused after disassembly can be returned to the factory, and discarded and recyclable parts can be used as raw materials.

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