Green supply chain management much more than questionnaires and ISO 14.001

Author

Stevels, Ab

Author_Institution

Design for Sustainability Programme, Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Green supply chain management goes clearly beyond substance questionnaires and ISO 14.001. In this paper it is demonstrated that supplier-producer cooperation in the fields of EcoDesign (Design for the Environment) and in benchmarking of manufacturing processes can yield impressive ecological and economic gains. Examples are shown in the fields of energy consumption of products, application of recycled material, take back and recycling and use of utilities in production. In all these fields it shows that "what is measured is better managed".

Keywords

design for environment; management; recycling; ISO 14.001; benchmarking; design for the environment; ecodesign; ecological gains; economic gains; green supply chain management; manufacturing processes; recycling; substance questionnaires; supplier-producer cooperation; Certification; Consumer electronics; Driver circuits; Electronic mail; ISO standards; Manufacturing processes; Power generation economics; Production; Supply chain management; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 2002 IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7214-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2002.1003247

Filename

1003247