Table of Contents
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Part I
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...................... Sean Gilbert
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Part II Resource Papers
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..............Lung-Sheng Chang
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................. William Shireman
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...................... Tay Joo Hwa
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...............Lynn E. Johannson
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....................Loretta Legault
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....................... Niven Huang
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.......................Takeo Takagi
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..............................C.H. Su
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..........................Shen-Yann Chiu
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......................eng-Ming Lee and Kwang-I Hu
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.......................... Jason Chu
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........................... Grace Liu
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.....................Kuo-Chung Liu
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................... Hiroaki Koshibu
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..............................Ning Yu
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.........................Chen Wen-Huei and Tang
Yi-Hua
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.................... Augustine Koh
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Part III Appendices
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....................... Yuji Yamada
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................. Kuei-Jung Huang
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.................. Chieh-Kwei Hsu
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Supply chain management is a very important factor directly related
to the productivity and the overall business competitiveness. Greening
of Supply Chain is an emerging concept for Asia and the Pacific region.
It advocates that the purchaser uses its purchasing power to demand an
improved environmental performance from the supplier upstream in the
supply chain. It is also implied that the purchaser - which in many
cases is a big corporation - will play a facilitators role towards its
suppliers - which are usually small and medium enterprises - and help
them in their efforts for becoming a more environment-friendly
organization. This effect is expected to trickle down throughout the
supply chain so that the entire supply chain becomes "green"
or more environment-friendly.
The APO has been promoting Green Productivity (GP) as a strategy for
simultaneous improvement in the productivity and the sound environmental
management. GP thus helps organizations in increasing their overall
competitiveness. It is well recognized that the Greening of Supply Chain
constitutes a very important aspect of Green Productivity efforts of any
organization.
With this background, the "Top Forum on Green Productivity - A
Management Strategy to Enhance Competitiveness by Greening the Supply
Chain." was organized from May 25-27, 2000 in Taipei, Republic of
China. The forum brought together experts from Japan, Taiwan, Europe,
and North America to share experiences and discuss the issue of Greening
the Supply Chain. The forum addressed several key aspects of supply
chain management, including:
1. The importance of enhancing Green Productivity (GP) by taking
consideration of environmental characteristics in the purchasing
decisions, including: dematerialization, minimizing the energy intensity
of goods and services, enhancing recyclability, and maximizing the use
of renewable resources;
2. Approaches to developing new partnerships among firms enhancing
environmental and sustainable performance;
3. Identification of new roles for government such as promotion of
eco-labeling programs and adoption of ISO 14000 that will provide a
framework for firms to practice green purchasing;
4. Strategies for stimulating the creation of new consumption patterns;
and
5. Technological breakthrough needed to encourage green purchasing.
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