Track: Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Abstract

As a developing country, Malaysia has moved from an agriculture-based economy to an industrialized economy in which manufacturing is considered to be the highest contributor towards environmental concerns. Globalization results the increasing awareness of the customers about environmental issues, businesses and households tend to buy green products. Hence, SMEs are facing pressure from global market to improve their environmental performance to ensure their competitiveness remains. This study aims to empirically investigate green supply chain management (GSCM) practices implementation at selected Malaysian SMEs. The objective of this research is to evaluate green supply chain management practices. An established questionnaire related to GSCM practices within selected SMEs is used to obtain the results. The result indicates that internal environment management, green purchasing, cooperation with customers, eco-design, and investment recovery are the factors to measure green supply chain management (GSCM) practices. Internal environmental management was the most important factor that  ensures green supply chain management (GSCM) implementation at SMEs followed by green purchasing, investment recovery and finally cooperation with customers together with eco-design.