Environmental Management in Product Chains

Michael Søgaard Jørgensen and Marianne Forman

Chapter 16 in Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management, 2009, pp 288-306 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The product chain — the chain of interacting suppliers and customers, which together make up the activities from raw material extraction to handling of waste connected to a product — plays an important role in the shaping and management of environmental aspects connected to the production and consumption of a product, for example, a piece of clothing. To illustrate, with lack of environmental focus, a retail chain may only be willing to pay a certain price for the product because their business strategy focuses on price competition with the other retailers. Therefore the retail chain does not care about the environmental protection measures taken by their suppliers and the retail chain procurement persons do not control the environmental aspects of the manufacturing at the suppliers’ facilities. In contrast, as an example of proactive environmental management, a manufacturing company may initiate direct supply of organic cotton from a number of small farmers in order to be able to protect their own workers during the manufacturing of T-shirts from the cotton.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Product Chain; Environmental Management System; Forest Stewardship Council; Environmental Initiative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230234956_16

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