Research Article

Environmental Supply Chain Performance Mapping of an Enterprise by Exploring a Novel Vague-Intellectual Approach

Table 3

Definitions of green supply chain performance metrics.

NotationsDescriptionsNotationsDescriptionsReferences

C1GP reflects the receiving of the eco-friendly materials/stuffs from vendors or purchase the materials from vendors under environmental practices.C1,1It measures that the firm is able to maintain the level of pollution as per state environmental regulations. Its main objective is to protect human social life.[41, 111]
C1,2It measures that the firm is following the national environmental regulations. In order that, the firm can control the air, water, and on land pollution.[41, 112]
C1,3It measures that the firm able to take action for purchasing the products/services under green concerns. The environmental mission ensures the firm for a healthy environment for current and future generation.[14, 113]
C1,4It measures that the commitment of supplier must be ethical towards its partners regarding supplying of the raw/finished goods with eco-friendly packing.[55]
C1,5It measures the periodic performance evaluation scheme of the firm’s partners/suppliers. It ensures the firm about its efficient internal management system towards purchasing the eco-friendly materials.[21, 114]

C2GA directs the organization to execute the eco-friendly practices during the promotion of the goods/services towards public via media.C2,1It measures the ability of firm to periodically declare the green policy across firm’ employees as well as customers.[115]
C2,2It measures the ability of firm to provide the delivery of products to its partners/customers under environmental practices.[96, 115, 116]
C2,3It measures the customer’s feedback system of firms’ about firm’s business, products, and different services.[117]
C2,4It measures the firm’ efforts towards adopting the green practices to sale its substitute of identical product.[115]
C2,5It measures the planning of the firm towards improving the functionality of products/services.[44, 115]

C3GPr states that manufacturing process should be designed to reduce the waste and high energy emission, resource’s consumption, and so on.C3,1It deals with the preplanned internal multinational policy of the firm to address the dynamic competitive global business environment.[48, 101, 118]
C3,2It measures the adaption of E-logistic software and technique for carting the data (documents) from firm to its trading partners without couriers.[115]
C3,3It measures that level of firm’s recruitment policy to recruit only skill entrepreneurs, which help firm to survive at competitive market.[51, 119]
C3,4It measures that does the firm has interaction with other GSC suppliers.[120, 121]

C4GD is concerned with the eco-design of entire production process.C4,1It measures the ability of firm to recycle the recovered products after its useful life or can be refined on recovery.[59, 122]
C4,2It mapped that does the firm used to share the environmental policy and records with its suppliers or customers.[11, 123125]
C4,3It mapped that does the firm able to reduce the substances, which leak and mix with environmental air.[123, 126]

C5GP states that wrapping of manufactured products must be eco-friendly.C5,1It measures that does the firm has green innovative idea and thinking and idea for acting on green packaging practice.[14, 120, 127]
C5,2It measures the degree of quality of eco-labeling/packing of products.[52, 128, 129]
C5,3It measures the ability of firm towards adapting the practice regarding reducing the weight of packing’s material.[57, 58, 123]

C6GR states that industries must compile the environmental protection policies and solutions in order to maintain the level of pollution as per the legal norms.C6,1It measures the ability of firm for effective utilization of green recycling practices.[117, 130]
C6,2It measures the ability of firm to obtain the high revenue by green recycling products.[49, 50, 131, 132]
C6,3It measures the ability of firm to act swiftly to repair the returned products under the green practices.[8, 56, 133]