Abstract
Nowadays environmental sustainability is a
major concern to companies that operates in a global
scale as it contributes to companies’ reputation,
stakeholder value and avoiding the risk of being to
illustrate a rational function on sustainability pushing
manufacturing industries to extend their focus beyond
conventional financial goals to the triple bottom line
technique that concurrently embraces the
environmental, social and economic domains. Work on
recycling mostly indirectly has been done in South
Africa as compared to sustainable supply chain and
reverse logistics. The author reviewed literature mostly
on the drivers and enablers of SSCM. The author used
explanatory research to find the drivers and enablers. 50
research articles mainly from Taylor and Francis are
reviewed to get the selected 10 drivers of the enterprise
development. The study used the Total Interpretive
Structural Method (TISM) to develop the integrated
framework using the elements of reverse logistics,
sustainable supply chain and enterprise development.
Data was analyzed and recommendations and
conclusions were drawn.