Supply Chain

Carbon Footprint Management across the Supply Chain

Manthraj Bhutada

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word count: 1772

Carbon Footprint Management across the Supply Chain

Manthraj Bhutada

MMay15glm037

word count: 1772

2015

2015

Table of Contents

Introduction: 3

Findings: 4

Managerial Implications: 6

References 8

Figures:

Figure 1 Environmental impact at each stage of Supply Chain (Cognizant, 2008) 4

Figure 2 Strengths of Green Supply Chain Management (Accenture, 2012) 5

Figure 3: The three stages of carbon emission reduction (Carbon Trust, 2006) 6

Introduction:

The Supply chain covers all the physical process from buying of raw materials to the manufacturing process and all the process until the final product reaches to the end customer. Supply chain management focuses on optimizing the operation of the organisation to maximize the speed and efficiency. Fundamentally, world is one big supply chain and in this world all the organisation are focusing on giving the right product, of right quantity, with right quality, at the right place and on the right time to their customers. Supply chain management touches the major issues in today’s global business environment the issue related to increasing growth of multinational cooperation and strategic partnerships, fluctuating oil and gas prices, environmental concerns, expansions and outsourcing, each of this issues dramatically affects the bottom line and organisation strategies. (Carbon Trust, 2006)

Increase in carbon footprint in today’s environment is growing concerns to the multi nationals as well as small organisation. The main reason behind it is increase in carbon footprint will have an adverse effect on the earth’s climate system. Governments, Firms, Organisation are under growing pressure to take some solid steps to reduce the carbon footprint...