Environmental integration in supply chains: Collaborative strategies for energy efficiency and waste reduction

Title

Environmental integration in supply chains: Collaborative strategies for energy efficiency and waste reduction

Creator

Kaur, Jasmine; Thapliyal, Shivani

Description

The chapter looks at why producers, transporters and distributors work with both government and nonprofit institutions to fix environmental problems in their operations. Stakeholders who work together achieve energy savings through resource efficiency and maintain water resources in a sustainable manner. This chapter examines practical strategies like renewable energy adoption and energy efficiency upgrades plus reverse supply chains and circular systems. It shows how several groups must work together to manage their environmental efforts to reach common targets. A combination of joint target setting, open discussion sharing and Collaborative Planning Forecasting Replenishment (CPFR) is spotlighted. Governments and NGOs work together to create supportive laws plus offer money benefits with help businesses to join forces. This section shows how small and medium- sized enterprises can solve financial hurdles through collective investments and green financing. Through real- world examples and practical methods, the chapter creates a way to combine sustainability with supply chains 2025, IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved.

Source

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Sustainable Supply Chain;pp.117-152

Date

01-01-2025

Publisher

IGI Global

Coverage

Kaur J., Christ University, India; Thapliyal S., Christ University, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-836938927-0; 979-836938925-6;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-8925-6.ch006

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