This is a Research report presentation made by Students of Iqra University | Gulshan e Iqbal Campus Karachi, Pakistan for their Research Proposal I & II Course in B.B.A Hons. Program on the topic of Green Supply Chain practices in 3rd party logistics company in Karachi.

1. Green Supply Chain Practices and Performances: A
case of TPL in Karachi
Prepared By:
Adeel Hafeez (5083)
Ali Ahmed (5159)
Muhammad Saad Siddiqui (5084)
Talha Bin Irfan (4618)
Facilitator:
Mr. Muhammad Ali

2. Introduction
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Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances
as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to
consumer.
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Green SCM is Integrating environment thinking into supply chain management, including
product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, delivery of
the final product to the consumers, and end-of-life management of the product after its
useful life.
Improves operations by employing an environmental solution
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Improves Agility: Green supply chain management help mitigate risks and speed
innovations
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Increases Adaptability: Green supply chain analysis often leads to innovative processes
and continuous improvements
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Promotes Alignment: involves negotiating policies with suppliers and customers, which
results in better alignment of business processes and principles.

3. Problem Statement
• Many researches have been move on Green Supply Chain and 3rd Party logistics.
The result of one of the studies show that the activities of logistics have Green
House & gas emission impact, some countries raise their financial gain pull down
at the cost of their expense of environment degradation, Green logistics efficiency
shows the competiveness logistic impact on Environment, and it shows that green
supply chain has full potential of innovation. Another research result shows that
the green supply chain has the full of innovation; different types of supply chain
actors must be included in this process, waste material can transform through
value chain process. In Pakistan there is lesser research conducted on the topic of
green supply chain and 3PL, so there is a need to study this topic in the context of
Pakistan.

4. Research Objective/s:
• To Identify the practices of Green Supply Chain.
• To find out Green supply chain performances on third
party logistics.
Research Question/s:
1. How organizations define Green Supply Chain
Practices?
2. How do Green Supply Chain practices affect the
performances of it in the case of Third Party Logistics
providers?

5. Literature Reviews

6. Name of the
Researcher and Title
Estimates and Results
Methodology
Conclusion
Literature Review
Perotti, S et al. (2011)
Increasing interest towards
environmental issues, the
“Green supply chain current level of adoption of
GSCP is still limited amongst
practices company
the 3PLs.
performance: the
case of 3PLs in
Italy”
Face to face
semi
structured
interviews
from the
executives of
15 3pls
providers .
There is increasing
interest toward the
environmental
challenges face by the
organizations and 3pl
providers are reluctant
to adopt the green
supply chain practices
and very few of them
adopt GSCP.
Ghobadian,A.and
Holt. D (2009)
Researcher
Distributed
questionnaire
among 60
Manufacturin
g companies
The companies incorporate
the green supply chain
management in their
processes along with its
8descriptive activities
rather than proactive,
external processes also the
environmental attitude is a
key predictor of GSCM.
“An empirical study of
green supply chain
management
practices amongst UK
manufacturers”
The result of the study
shows that in UK the
manufacturing companies
have pressure to improve
the environmental
performance through
legislation.

7. (cont…)
Name of the
Researchers and
Title
Baofeng.H et.al
(2008)
“Understanding
drivers of
performance in the
3PL industry in
Hong Kong”
B.S. Sahay and
Mohan.R (2006)
“3PL practices: an
Indian
Perspective”
Estimates and Results
Methodology
Conclusion
The result shows that the
external & internal
environment has convinced
touch on the operational
Performance of 3PL
Companies and this
performance also carry
22positive impact on the
financial performance of
companies.
survey of 15 3PL
Provider
companies of
Hong-Kong,
Structured
Questionnaire
Disturbed
among the 15
executives of the
3PL Companies.
This research provides
comprehensive
overview about market
challenges, operations
& Functional
Involvement.
Result shows that the usage
of the 3rd party logistics
impact positively on business
practices 3rd party logistics is
still on the initial stage in the
India.
The data
collected
through the
survey
questionnaire
with the input &
output variable
to see the
The outsourcing would
increase in the India in
up-coming years.

8. Methodology
Research Approach
Qualitative Approach
Research Purpose
Exploratory
Research Design
Phenomenology
Data Source
Primary data
Data Collection
Instrument
In-depth Interview
Target Population
Logistic Industry (TCS, KICT, OCS &
e2e)
4 Interviews
Sample Size

9. Themes
Question 1: How organizations define Green Supply Chain Practices?
Theme 1: Outsourcing
Theme 2: Technological innovation
Theme 3: Recycling
Theme 4: Fleet Management
Theme 5: Benchmarking

10. Themes
Question 2: How do Green Supply Chain practices affect the
performances of it in the case of Third Party Logistics providers?
Theme 1: Integrated Operation
Theme 2: Environmental friendly
Theme 3: Better Customer Service
Theme 4: Cost Reduction
Theme 5: Focus on Core Business

11. Conclusion
 The main reason of this research is to study Green Supply Chain
practices and performances in 3rd party logistics (3PL) companies of
Karachi.
 The result shows that the logistic companies are very much
concerned about the environmental issues & professionally practicing
the Green supply practices to remain environmentally friendly; in
each every single step in their logistic operations they keep check and
balance of proper green supply chain practices.
 Our variables are Green Supply Chain, Distribution Strategies,
warehousing, Reverse logistics and internal management.

12. Recommendations
 Our Beneficiaries get in-depth knowledge about the importance
of green supply chain.
 The beneficiaries can also be able to know that how the TPL
companies are working to improve the environment.
 By working with these types of logistic companies all the other
manufacturing & non-manufacturing companies will get benefit
in terms of cost reduction, improved processes and etc.

13. Future Recommendations
 Our research is only focused on Karachi; therefore the practices of green
supply chain in whole Pakistan are not covered.
 Governmental organizations are not studied in the research due to the
legal issues of permission.
 Researchers faced the time issue because of the short time period of
academic semester that’s why work is very limited.

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