Analysis of Barriers in Sustainable Supply Chain Management for Indian Automobile Industries

Abstract

The manufacturing industries of India are facing the global pressure to adopt the sustainable supply chain management practices. While there are some studies related to manufacturing industries across the world to examine the barriers but these studies are from developed nations. There are very fewer studies which are on manufacturing industries and from developing nations. To bridge this gap, it is very important to identify the critical barriers which influence the implementation of sustainable supply chain management in the manufacturing industries of India. Therefore, this study identifies the critical barriers in the implementation of sustainable supply chain management practices. There are total nine critical barriers found out after literature review and experts opinions from the industries and academia. Total ten manufacturing industries dealing in the automobile sectors were targeted to collect the data and responses collected from the both academia and industry. Further data is synthesized and AHP method is applied to rank the barriers and evaluate the effect of the barriers on the SSCM implementation. Cost of the sustainability and economical conditions in the manufacturing industries is found to be most influencing barrier among all the barriers. The findings of this study aims to support the Indian manufacturing industries in the structural way so that policy makers and managers from the manufacturing industries can identify the most influencing barrier and work in future to eliminate that for the implementation of SSCM in their business practices to achieve business excellence. Also, this study can be helpful to the stake-holders to achieve the sustainable development goal 2030.