Abstract
The world is changing drastically every day; it is becoming easy to buy or sell goods and services on an international scale. This result in the growth of production around the world. There is increasing competition to make profit therefore companies strive to produce more goods at a lower manufacturing cost to increase revenue which later has a negative impact on the lifespan of the product and a negative impact on the environment. Due to the negative impact that the environment is facing companies need to adopt green supply chain management practices to meet increasingly stringent environmental regulations and remain competitive.
Organisations need to adopt green supply chain management practices to meet increasingly stringent environmental regulations and to remain competitive. South Africa has yet to fully embrace the benefits of green supply chain management. Thus, an analysis of the relationship between the barriers of green supply chain management needs to be determined. Mixed research followed a mixed research approach, qualitative research was used to gather the expert’s opinion on green supply chain barriers and quantitative was used to analyze the relationship between the barriers using the DEMATEL methodology.
The results of the study indicate that lack of top management involvement in GSCM adoption, Fear of converting to new systems, a lack of training courses/consultancy/institutions to train, Customer ignorance on the pressure about GSCM, and a lack of a proper training/reward system for suppliers are some of the major barriers to implementation of green supply chain management.