GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND TRENDS IN LOGISTICS: CURRENT PRACTICES IN TURKEY

OpenAlex İngilizce

Increase in population and development in industry and technology have a great impact on consumption. Increase in the consumption leads to environmental pollution and global warming eventually. These threats have taught people to be sensitive to the environment and to live 'green' while trying to make life easier for themselves. For this reason, the production, distribution and marketing of the product have emerged under the concept of 'green supply chain management' as an environmentally friendly study. In Turkey, industrialization process did not have an intention to give harm to environment. Therefore, green practices are started to be used in the production and services today in our country. For this reason, the subject of “Green Supply Chain Management” has been chosen and tried to be explained in order to primarily guide all domestic and foreign businesses operating in our country to improve their environmental performance by reducing their environmental impacts. The first part of the study is a review on green supply chain management and mentions the usages in logistics. The latter part of the study aimed to shed light on the green logistics applications to the companies in Turkey by comparing the existing applications with the literature, and with in the content analysis. It is also tried to reach the opinions of the logistics sector representatives about the perception of green supply chain management and Turkey's situation on this issue. In addition, the study also discusses what can be done for the future in terms of the environment.