Title: A literature review on green supply chain modelling for optimising CO₂ emission

Authors: Ashkan Memari; Abd Rahman Abdul Rahim; Robiah Ahmad; Adnan Hassan

Addresses: Department of Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Malaysia ' Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ' Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ' Department of Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Malaysia

Abstract: Global warming impacts are becoming more visible in our daily life. Supply chain activities and many logistics activities are the leading sources of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission and environmental pollutions. These issues have raised concerns to reduce CO₂ emissions amount through design and planning of supply chain networks. Operations research has been recognised by many studies as an effective tool to deal with CO₂ emission in design and planning of green supply chains. To date, a number of literature reviews have highlighted the contribution of operations research to green supply chain management with broader areas of focus. In this paper, we present a review which highlights the operations research contribution to recent green supply chain and logistics literature which specifically focuses on planning and control of supply chain activities with respect to CO₂ emission. Finally, we propose some possible areas for further developments of current studies and directions for future research.

Keywords: literature review; green SCM; GSCM; supply chain management; logistics; optimisation; CO2; carbon dioxide; carbon emissions; modelling; global warming; environmental pollution; operations research; supply chain planning; supply chain control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2016.077725

International Journal of Operational Research, 2016 Vol.26 No.4, pp.509 - 525

Received: 09 Oct 2015
Accepted: 02 Jan 2016
Published online: 13 Jul 2016 *

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