دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدل سازی رابطه بین موانع مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار در صنعت چرم - الزویر 2018

Abstract

The leather industry of Bangladesh is facing considerable amounts of pressure to adopt sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). While there are some studies that have examined barriers to SSCM practices in developed and developing countries in various domains, these are not necessarily applicable to the Bangladeshi leather industry. To bridge this gap, it is crucial to identify most influential barriers to SSCM practices, particularly in the context of developing economies. Therefore, this study identifies such barriers and examines the causal relationships between them with an aim to facilitate the effective implementation of SSCM in the Bangladeshi leather processing industry. Thirty-five barriers to SSCM implementation were identified through a detailed literature review and a survey of leather processing industry experts. Among them, the most common 20 barriers were selected with the help of industry experts. Then, a blended, grey-based Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach was utilized to examine their interrelationships. The results demonstrate that nine barriers could be classified as “causal” and eleven as “influenced”. ‘Lack of awareness of local customers in green products’ and ‘lack of commitment from top management’ took high priority in the causal group. ‘Lack of reverse logistics practices’ and ‘Outdated machineries’ were the most influenced barriers. This research uses a leather processing company as a case study for demonstrating the proposed model. The findings aim to support the leather processing industry in a structural way, so that industrial managers can identify the most influential barriers and work to eliminate them. This study may be useful to stakeholders to achieve sustainable development.

7. Conclusions, unique contribution and further research scope

SSCM practices are becoming popular business trend for sustainable development of industrial sector. Companies are trying to implement SSCM practices for business continuity (Chin et al., 2015). Hence, it is not an easy task to implement SSCM in traditional supply chains, because there are numerous barriers. Therefore, the present study attempts to propose a structural model to assess the interrelationships among such barriers which is more relevant to emerging economies since they faces multiple hurdles and are in the early stage of SSCM implementation. The motive behind proposing the structural model to analyze the barriers to SSCM implementation is that no study has yet been conducted on barriers to SSCM implementation in the leather processing industry using a grey DEMATEL approach. The findings revealed that there were nine barriers belong to causal group and eleven in the effect group. Lack of awareness of local customers in green products, lack of commitment from top management, cost of sustainability and economic conditions, lack of eco-literacy amongst supply chain partners, absence of society pressure, lack of training and education about sustainability, information gap, and lack of cleaner technology seemed to be the most important causal driving barriers to SSCM initiation in the studied supply chain. Lack of reverse logistics practices and outdated machinery seemed to be the most influential barriers. This means that other barriers can easily influence those barriers, and that the improvement of other barriers will directly influence them. Therefore, this study may help managers and planners identify the most influential SSCM implementation barriers. This highlights the steps necessary to eradicate them. The main contributions of this study can be summarised as follows.