Unlike conventional supply chain, green supply chains are designed to ensure that the creation of value, not the risk and wastes generated at every stage, from design to recycling and recovery. As a primer, this note for students, MBA, and executive students learn the corporate response to environmental degradation, increased energy and materials prices and the growing problems of international supply chains. Management of complex relationships and material flows across companies and cultures is a key challenge for the green supply chains. But the "greening" of the supply chain networks many advantages. "Hide
Andrea Larson on 14 pages. Publication Date: October 21, 2009. Prod. #: UV2048-PDF-ENG
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