Interpretive Structure Model Formulation for Implementing Green Supply Chain-A Study of Indian Automobile Industry

Green supply Chain Management (GSCM) is an approach to improve performance of the process and products according to the requirements of the environmental regulations. GSCM has emerged in the last few years and covers all phases of product's life cycle from design, production and distribution phases to the use of products by the end users and its disposal at the end of product's life cycle. Awareness level of customers of Green practices opted by organizations has got raised in India also. So organizations need to focus on the utilization of energy and resources for making environmentally sound supply chain. The objective of this paper is to identify various barriers to implement GSCM in Indian automobile industry, to identify further the contextual relationship among the identified barriers to implement GSCM, to classify these barriers depending upon their driving and dependence power and finally to develop ISM based model of these barriers. Limitations of the study and scope of the future work have also been discussed