Volume : III, Issue : III, March - 2013

Forward and Reverse Sustainable Supply Chain: A Case Study in Plastic Industry

D. Thresh Kumar, K. Madan Shankar

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Over last decade sustainability has become the most important criteria for any firm in any field to approach the government and public in best way. Now a day’s sustainability is also practiced in supply chain management in big sectors. But in case of the small scale industries they have not participated in the following issue properly. We consider the small scale plastic industry, which has employed both forward and reverse supply chain for our study. Here, we are going to find out the environmental exchange and cost involvement during the forward and reverse process through life cycle analysis (LCA). A model for recycling plastic and virgin plastic were proposed. In the virtue of findings, we made a preliminary comparison on both forward and reverse supply chain of the plastic industry to make a clear view on their difference in environmental concern and cost concern.

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D. Thresh Kumar,K. Madan Shankar Forward and Reverse Sustainable Supply Chain: A Case Study in Plastic Industry Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.III March 2013

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