Proposal for a Preliminary Model of Integrated Product Development Process Oriented by Green Supply Chain Management

Abstract

For sustainable product development, activities related to the selection of raw materials, product design, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution must be considered in a way that respects environmental limits and implements alternatives to reduce the consumption of natural resources. Due to this context, companies have sought to create environmentally sustainable alternatives for products and processes, once exposed to government, market, and regulatory pressures. Given this scenario, the question of this study is presented: Is it possible to define a conceptual model from existing models in the literature that guides companies in their Integrated Product Development Process (IPDP) and is oriented by Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM)? To answer the research problem question, a preliminary model integrating the IPDP and GSCM themes was presented. The elaboration of the preliminary model was only possible from the systematic literature review and content analysis previously carried out and presented in the general data in this article. The general aim of the study is to present a preliminary model in which IPDP is oriented to GSCM. As specific objectives, this study intends to present models previously published that have some relation to the IPDP related to green design, green purchase, green manufacturing, green distribution, and reverse logistics, which are related to GSCM; in addition, it presents guidelines to integrate the stages of product development and GSCM to reduce the environmental impact. The contribution of the preliminary model for companies is to present criteria that reduce the environmental impact of products in different GSCM activities within the IPDP. The contribution of this study is to present an analysis of the existing models, which will be the basis for the development of a conceptual model.

Performance Measurement Model for Sustainability Assessment of the Swine Supply Chain

“…In this sense, the trade-offs between environmental, economic, and social sustainability should be considered to evaluate the sustainability of swine production [3]. Previous studies developed measurements to evaluate sustainability in different contexts [19]. The indicators represent the information used to gauge and motivate progress towards the sustainable production goals set by the aforementioned international standards [41].…”

“…Sustainability indicators have been used to measure and motivate continuous improvement towards sustainable production goals [18]. In this sense, the definition of sustainability indicators for supply chains involves making choices concerning both what and how to measure [19]. In the sustainability assessment of production systems and supply chains, the environmental component has prevailed [20].…”

Performance measurement framework of green supply chain implementation in the context of Indian manufacturing organizations

“…Under regulatory, competitive and community pressure, manufacturing industries develop environmental approaches like GSCM (Sutrisno and Kumar, 2022). GSCM can be obtained including green supply chain practices like green design (Ali and Shoaib, 2023), green purchasing (Uemura Reche et al, 2022), reverse logistics, internal environmental management (Afum et al, 2021), green customer cooperation (Agarwal et al, 2022), green supplier selection (Gonzalez et al, 2022), investment recovery (Mardani et al, 2020), green production (Xu et al, 2022), green marketing (Amaya Rivas et al, 2022), green information technology and systems (Kumar and Barua, 2022), green packaging (Moustafa et al, 2022), green human resource management (Nawanir et al, 2021), green innovation (Luo et al, 2021), green transportation (Chen et al, 2021), green warehousing (Agyabeng-Mensah et al, 2020), etc., in the manufacturing industries.…”

“…Under regulatory, competitive and community pressure, manufacturing industries develop environmental approaches like GSCM (Sutrisno and Kumar, 2022). GSCM can be obtained including green supply chain practices like green design (Ali and Shoaib, 2023), green purchasing (Uemura Reche et al. , 2022), reverse logistics, internal environmental management (Afum et al.…”