The Research And Practice Of Green Supply-chain In Apple

Green supply chain management has attracted more and more attention of top management of a manufacture company. It has become one of the most important strategies of a company. It plays a significant role in competing with its competitors. More and more companies have realized that green product does not only bring the cost increasing but also become an advantage or the product’s new sell point. Companies will be punished some day if their supply chain is not green. Therefore each company need review their supply chain & find effective ways to complete the transition from the tradition supply chain to green supply chain.Green supply chain management is called environmental concept supply chain management. It considers all the possible environmental issues into the whole supply chain & finds ways to reduce or remove the damage to the environment. This article will analyze the whole process of green supply chain and take Apple as an actual case to study its history, development, and challenges of Apple’s g green supply chain. Although Apple made a lot of progress on the green supply chain management, Apple has been criticizing by the public because more and more ethic, environmental & safety accidents happened recently. How Apple can do better? The article compares Dell & Walmat’s best practice of green supply chain management and provides some ideas & improvement on supply chain management.We are looking forward to the green supply chain management be implemented more widely and hope this article which can provide some valuable reference for the improvement of China manufacturer’s competency.