Chapter 19Green Six Sigma and Green Supply Chain
When we walk away from global warming, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
—John Kerry
19.1 Introduction
A supply chain, in simple terms, is a network between the suppliers to source the materials, the producer to convert them into products and the distributors to distribute the products to customers. The network could be complex involving many activities, people, facilities, information, processes and systems. In a typical supply chain, raw materials are procured (some local and some imported) and items are produced at one or more factories, transported to warehouses for intermediate ...
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