Supply Chain Modeling and Green Supply Chain: Literature Revue

A green supply chain should be rethought towards the term greening, whereas greening concerns in particular the environment, a lot of research works has been carried out jointly on the supply chain and the environmental dimension, exclusively supply chain modeling. This article is intended to present, first of all a summarized literature review of supply chain, green supply chain, and its modeling. Many researchers have proposed different models of green supply chain, except that each model is specific to the studied supply chain. Tending to meet this challenge the contribution of this paper is to propose a general framework of the green supply chains modeling

Barriers in green lean implementation: a combined systematic literature review and interpretive structural modelling approach

Green Lean has recently emerged as an alternative strategy for organizations to pursue both operational and sustainability excellence. The interest on this approach has rapidly risen in both academic and industry circles. However, despite this interest, very limited research has focused on its implementation, and no research has investigated the barriers that hinder the success of such activity. This study investigates the Green Lean implementation barriers and their contextual relationships and effects on the integration and deployment of this approach. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR), Interpretative Structural Modelling and fuzzy Matriced’ Impacts Croise’s Multiplication Appliqée a UN Classement (MICMAC) analyzes were carried out. Fifteen barriers were extracted from the SLR and then validated in consultation with industry and academic experts. The Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) method was used to understand the relationship between the fifteen barriers and to develop a hierarchical model of these. The different barriers were classified into ‘linkage’ and ‘dependent’ barriers by using MICMAC analysis. The results suggested that all the identified barriers play an important role, and hence can equally act as a significant hurdle to the implementation of Green Lean projects. This study can help managers and policy makers in better understanding these barriers. Thus, they can be assisted in managing and prioritizing barriers towards the successful implementation of Green Lean initiatives for better financial and environmental performance.N/

Knowledge management in industrial companies

The industrial enterprise as a development organization of the country is as also concerned by the formation of its own elite. Indeed, in an economic environment increasingly complex and competitive, companies, especially those of industrial activity are now aware, more than ever, of the importance of knowledge management of their human resources as a primary factor for strengthening the innovative spirit of its employees, and therefore the performance of the different chains of the business. The concern of this article is, first, to describe the reasons for the emergence of the concept of knowledge management within firms. On the other hand, we will try to highlight the interests and objectives of this type of management, but more importantly, to highlight the difficulties and limitations of the application of its procedures

Lean, green practices and process innovation: a model for green supply chain performance

This paper investigates the relationship between lean, process innovation, green practices and green supply chain management performance. Data were gathered by surveying 374 firms in the manufacturing supply chain industry. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the collected data. The study results show general support for the theoretical research framework. Findings reveal that there is a synergetic effect between process innovations, green and lean practices playing a crucial role towards the improvement of green supply chain performance. This paper presents an innovative approach since it studies simultaneously the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social and economic), the lean, the innovation process and green paradigms which are considered strategic for supply chain competitiveness. Investigation of the relationships between the four strategies is a contribution that the authors hope will become a forward step in the promotion of sustainability as a third dimension of the manufacturing supply chain, along with the efficiency and responsiveness dimensions

Green and Lean: a Gemba–Kaizen model for sustainability enhancement

Despite the encouraging results obtained from the application of Green Lean, organizations have found the integration of Green and Lean, and their implementation as an integrated approach, challenging, especially when resources are limited. This paper aims to overcome some of these challenges by presenting a model for integrating Lean and Green based on the Gemba-Kaizen approach. The objective is to help organizations reduce their environmental waste in a practical and easy manner with limited resources. The proposed model was developed on the basis of a through literature review on Gemba and Kaizen, conducted on peer–reviewed journal articles and pragmatic books with managerial impact on the subject, and the more than 40 years of accumulated experience of the authors as academics, researchers, industrialists and consultants after having worked on a number of projects for multinational organisations that wanted to implement Lean Six Sigma and/or environmental management systems in various industrial sectors. The model was validated through two cases study in the aerospace and automotive industries. The results showed that the proposed model helped the case organizations to reduce the consumption of resources and improve their environmental performance. The proposed model can be the basis for further research on Lean and Green, contributing to help organizations to improve their sustainability performance. This research presents a first attempt to develop a model which integrates Lean and Green based on a combined Gemba-Kaizen approach

A framework for the integration of green and lean six sigma for superior sustainability performance

Evidence suggests that Lean, Six Sigma and Green approaches make a positive contribution to the economic, social and environmental (i.e. sustainability) performance of organizations. However, evidence also suggests that organizations have found their integration and implementation challenging. The purpose of this research is therefore to present a framework that methodically guides companies through a five stages and sixteen steps process to effectively integrate and implement the Green, Lean and Six Sigma approaches to improve their sustainability performance. To achieve this, a critical review of the existing literature in the subject area was conducted to build a research gap, and subsequently develop the methodological framework proposed. The paper presents the results from the application of the proposed framework in four organizations with different sizes and operating in a diverse range of industries. The results showed that the integration of Lean Six Sigma and Green helped the organizations to averagely reduce their resources consumption from 20% to 40% and minimize the cost of energy and mass streams by 7-12%. The application of the framework should be gradual, the companies should assess their weaknesses and strengths, set priorities, and identify goals for successful implementation. This paper is one of the very first researches that presents a framework to integrate Green and Lean Six Sigma at a factory level, and hence offers the potential to be expanded to multiple factories or even supply chains

Assessement of managers satisfaction regarding the HR Function in developing countries through a quantitative method research: The Moroccan context

This paper presents a practice-oriented study that aims to reveal challenges faced by HR managers within developing countries through studying the Moroccan context. Indeed, we conducted a quantitative inquiry that evaluates the HR function performance based on Ulrich model. This study revealed the existence of several difficulties in terms of implementing a suitable HR function within industrial companies. The reliability of the inquiry was proven by calculating Cronbach Alphas. This research has important implications for HR professionals and strategic leaders that are especially interested in developing countries which will account for nearly 60% of global GDP in 2030, according to new estimates (OECD, 2018)

Literal framework of Green supply chain Modeling

International audienceBackground: Supply chain covers a set of logistics components (procurement, storage, production,distribution...). In addition to the classical logistics components, the green supply chain integrates theenvironmental dimension in all these components.Nowadays modeling a supply chain by integrating environmental constraints has become an important metrics, in the logistic field for scientists, and also for industrialist in order to meet the customer needs, that has become more and more demanding in terms of respecting environment.This article aims to summarize some literature studies of the green supply chain and its modeling; afterwards we will expose an overview trough a comparative study about the used methods and approaches in the green supply chains modeling

Evaluating the HR function as being a factor of supply chain performance: Case of industrial companies in Morocco

In an economic environment increasingly complex and competitive, firms are now aware, more than ever, of the importance of controlling the human resources function as a primary factor to the success and performance of their supply chains. Through studying the Moroccan industrial companies, the concern of this article is to highlight the role of human resource function in the supply chain performance, in the light of the company culture and under the effect of a HRM practices influenced by the competitive environment, and the resulting mutations

Evaluating the HR function as being a factor of supply chain performance: Case of industrial companies in Morocco

In an economic environment increasingly complex and competitive, firms are now aware, more than ever, of the importance of controlling the human resources function as a primary factor to the success and performance of their supply chains. Through studying the Moroccan industrial companies, the concern of this article is to highlight the role of human resource function in the supply chain performance, in the light of the company culture and under the effect of a HRM practices influenced by the competitive environment, and the resulting mutations