Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to the adaptation of green supply chain management concept within the sugar industry in Sri Lanka. Because of increasing the environment problem throughout the world, it is been topical to study the concept of green supply chain management. Hence large numbers of scholars have been focused their emphasis on the green supply chain management and do more research on this area on their own countries. So in this study researcher expect to reinforce existing knowledge about green supply chain management establish on Sri Lankan context. furthermore, the author was not found any studies were conducted in the sugar industry in the Sri Lankan context regarding the green supply chain management therefore literature on this study was hard to find in Sri Lankan context. Therefore, this was the main reason for the researcher to interest in attempts to do the research on adaptation in green supply chain management in the sugar industry in the Sri Lankan context.
Basically, in order to get a better understanding of green supply chain management concept, the researcher attended to critically evaluate the green supply chain management literature and its different frameworks. Thereafter researcher critically evaluated the green supply chain activities such as green procurement, green manufacturing, green distribution, reverse logistics and waste management through the current literature, as well as researcher attempted to assess the level of importance or relevance of those elements in the sugar industry. Thereafter in order to establish a strategic green supply chain management framework into the sugar industry in Sri Lanka, the researcher attempted to evaluate the best available practices applied by the sugar industry with compare to the other industry, for this, intensively survey was conducted by the researcher from available literature by referring many articles and research conducted by other authors in other countries. In order to get an idea about the existing level of green supply chain practices adopted by the sugar industry in Sri Lanka, the researcher has collected data from the 15 sample in three sugar companies in Sri Lanka by questionnaires and data were analyzed by applying qualitative thematic analysis.
The result of the study showed that generally, the level of adaptation in green supply chain activities in the sugar industry is not in a satisfactory level especially waste management and green distribution concepts, effectively use of resources and action taken to reduce the emission are far below when compared to the best available practices. Therefore result suggests that the sugar industry in Sri Lanka should strive to adapt practices of GSCM from the environmental point of view.
Conclusion of this study will be delivered outstanding support to the green supply chain management, in addition to top level managers of the sugar industry, relevant authorities and the ministry of the plantation of Sri Lanka as well as Government of Sri Lanka.
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