Proveedores y procesos productivos verdes y los beneficios obtenidos en la industria manufacturera stars

Abstract

Right now, the environmental awareness is demanded more and more and not only for first world countries or countries with a very advanced industrialized development. The environmental corporate development is becoming a business strategy and it is one of the most significant changes in today's markets. Those actions in the environmental area became proactive and began to be understood as mandatory innovations and not only as a competitive strategy in industrial manufacturing. Several environmental practices can be used, such as products’ life cycle analysis and designs with an ecological approach, the selection of green suppliers, the sustainable distribution and topics that have been a growing global trend in the industrial manufacturing. However, the most used tool in the global industrial manufacturing is the implementation of a Green Supply Chain (GSC), since this chain has the key to develop new products, systems and services with environmental practices and reduces the use of resources while minimizing the environmental impact. Despite the above, carry out a successful GSC for third world countries with a lower degree of industrial development, it becomes a fairly difficult task, since there is no culture, social responsibility, or government support, and there is a limited economical budget. In addition, it is surmised that having green thinking in your organization entails high and unprofitable economic costs. Therefore, this thesis document presents three studies focused on Mexican industrial manufacturing where it is demonstrated qualitatively that implementing a successful GSC is possible and besides that, a series of benefits will be guaranteed and will have a positive impact on the economy, processes and marketing of organizations. A methodology based on two structural equations models is used to demonstrate the positive relationship which entails selecting a Green Supplier (GS) with the use of attributes and transforming the traditional manufacturing process into a Green Manufacturing (GM) process; in the successful implementation of a GSC and the generation of a series of benefits. Finally, a structural equations model is presented relating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as a tool to help in the successful implementation of a GSC, since these tools facilitate communication, the production and distribution processes will be optimized in manufacturing industry.