TY - GEN
T1 - Green IT logistics in a greek retailer
T2 - IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013
AU - Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia
AU - Gerostergioudis, Georgios
AU - Chen, Hsin
AU - Brooks, Laurence
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Environmental sustainability is one of the issues that organizations need to face today. Nevertheless, Green IT practices have their disadvantages, especially financial ones, which make the green logistic topic controversial to organizations. Achieving zero emissions while receiving financial benefits is idealistic thus companies need to adapt specific green strategies according to their particular needs. This study analyzes a specific company in terms of its green logistics strategy in order to discover any shortcomings and to depict how issues from literature review can influence the operation of the organization. This company is a super market chain dominant in the market of northern Greece. Focusing on the e-logistics of the firm, issues such as warehouse management system, inventory control, transportation, distribution and reverse logistics are examined in combination with the environmental consciousness. Our results could be useful to companies looking to exploit Green IT logistics.
AB - Environmental sustainability is one of the issues that organizations need to face today. Nevertheless, Green IT practices have their disadvantages, especially financial ones, which make the green logistic topic controversial to organizations. Achieving zero emissions while receiving financial benefits is idealistic thus companies need to adapt specific green strategies according to their particular needs. This study analyzes a specific company in terms of its green logistics strategy in order to discover any shortcomings and to depict how issues from literature review can influence the operation of the organization. This company is a super market chain dominant in the market of northern Greece. Focusing on the e-logistics of the firm, issues such as warehouse management system, inventory control, transportation, distribution and reverse logistics are examined in combination with the environmental consciousness. Our results could be useful to companies looking to exploit Green IT logistics.
KW - Environment
KW - Green logistics
KW - Retailing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85025437327
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38862-0_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38862-0_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85025437327
SN - 9783642388613
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 136
EP - 150
BT - Grand Successes and Failures in IT
A2 - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
A2 - De, Rahul
A2 - Wastell, David
A2 - Henriksen, Helle Zinner
PB - Springer
Y2 - 27 June 2013 through 29 June 2013
ER -