Greening the Supply Chain--a Guide for Asian Managers.

Kumar, Vivek

Greening the Supply Chain--a Guide for Asian Managers, Purba Halady Rao, Sage Publication Private Limited, New Delhi, 2008, Pages 251, Price Rs. 325.

A timely effort, this book capably deals with the issue of 'sustainable environmental development' along with 'efficiency across businesses'. Rao explores how different types of environmentally sustainable practices should be adopted at different stages of supply chains. A number of initiatives taken up by various industries have been included to illustrate this point.

Greening the supply chain is an excellent companion book to any standard reading on supply chain and provides clear focus and need for adopting environmentally focused practices while managing a supply chain, which is unquestionably one of the major contributor to global warming in particular and environmental pollution of various kinds in general.

This book has been written in an easy to understand language with numerous illustrations to clarify various points and would help a supply chain or materials manager in improvising his existing supply chain to usher in green practices right from supplier selection to material receipt. The case studies taken from a wide range of industries spread all over South and South East Asia are extremely useful in appreciating the usage of this concept.

Vivek Kumar

Senior Professor

FORE School of Management