1、With the modernization of Chinese society and the public awareness of environmental protection, logistics industry in China has changed the environment in all perspectives .Green logistics is concerned the production and distributing goods in a sustainable way, and takes account of environmental and
2、 social factors. Green Logistics activities include measuring the environmental impact of different distribution strategies, reducing the energy usage in logistics activities, reducing waste and managing its treatment(Abdelkader Sbihi, Richard W. Eglese, 2010). Modern green logistics management as a
3、 kind of new logistics management mode, accords with the developmental requirement of the times and the benefit of human survival and development, and represents the developmental direction and trend of future logistics management (Da Chen, 2001). More and more people concern green logistics because
4、 traditional logistics can not meet the requirements of modern society and has huge impact to the environment. Therefore, the interest in developing green logistics from companies, government, and public is increasing dramatically. However, green logistics is a pretty new concept in China, and is li
5、mited by the knowledge, policies and regulations, infrastructure, information technology, and personnel training. Therefore, there are still many barriers for developing green logistics in China and need to remove those barriers for better performance .The development of green logistics is an import
6、ant issue to implement the sustainable development strategy. Sustainable development strategy means the social economic development must associate with the natural environment, social environment, and coordinate with the resource to ensure the society development has a benign circulation. At present
7、, the economic and social development faces many social problems in China, and the environmental pollution is a serious problem. Green logistics emphasizes the development concept of resource conservation and environmental protection. Implementing green logistics is an essentially way to promote the
8、 social and economic sustainable development. Developing green logistics can encourage enterprises to obtain new competitive advantages Along with the development of economic globalization, foreign logistics enterprises have been tackling Chinese market, which will bring huge pressure and shocks to
9、domestic logistics enterprises. Meanwhile, the serious environmental problems and the restriction of laws and regulations, compels enterprises to resolve the problem in economic activities. For the sustainable development, the enterprise should establish the green logistics system and pursue higher
10、competitive advantages through the green logistics strategy. Obviously, developing green logistics is not only the need of society, but also the need of enterprise. Furthermore, green logistics can reduce the operating cost sharply. The statistics indicates that only 10% of time is for manufacturing
11、, and almost 90% of time is for the transportation, loading and unloading, package or secondary processing and information processing during the processes of products from manufacturers to consumers. Therefore, logistics specialization undoubtedly is a key method to reduce the cost. Green logistics
12、is not only significant to reduce the general logistics cost, but also more important to environment, energy-saving and high efficiency. Enterprises should speed up the development of green logistics, so as to obtain new competition advantages and deal with future challengesC. Developing green logis
13、tics can increase peoples living standards Developing green logistics can efficiently reduce the traffic pollution and optimize the peoples living environment. Meanwhile, the green logistics develops quickly and meets exactly the need of life improvement especially the growing of green consumption.
14、To realize the green consumption, green products must be manufactured with environment friendly and be delivered to consumers by green logistics. It can be seen that green logistics has a very important status in people daily lives. Environmental transport Transportation is one of the most important
15、 factors in logistics functions, and also is one of the biggest pollution makers to environment. Environmental transport should base on reducing energy consumption and cutting down exhaust emissions. To attain the environmental transportation, several main aspects should be considered as follows: Ma
16、king freight network plan and distribution centre layout systematically. Optimizes various transportation dispatching, and selects transport routes rationally, to avoid idle travelling, convection transport, circuitous transport, and repetitive transport; to improve vehicles actual load rate and rou
17、nd-trip carrying rate effectively. Improve the internal-combustion engine technology of the transport vehicle and priority to use clean fuel. Reduce fuel consumption and emissions during the transportation process, and realizes the targets of energy saving and emission reduction. Prevent transportat
18、ion vehicles from oil spilling and avoid to harming the environment severely (Xie si Xin and Wenfeng Wang, 2010).Nowadays, oil pollution is becoming more and more serious especially in Maritime transport. Oil pollution will be very difficult to control in the event of marine accidents and affects th
19、e marine environment in along period of time. Advocate more logistics companies to load freight by “carpooling transportation”. For many sporadic freight transportations, logistics enterprise always only considers his or her transportation vehicles and freight sources. However, some vehicles are not
20、 fully loaded but cannot wait for other goods because of the arrival time restriction, which results in the waste of loading resources and high cost of transportation. Consequently, logistics enterprises should share the information and resource, and implement the cooperative dispatching strategy. I
21、n the cooperative dispatching mode, various enterprises transport their freights by sharing a vehicle, and split the cost based on their respective quantity of goods and transportation distances. As the result, there source utilization rate can be increased as high as possible. This mode is especial
22、ly suitable for several logistics enterprises in the same logistics circles. The dispatching mode is shown in figure 1.Figure 1. Cooperative dispatching mode B. Green storage The purpose of green storage is to optimize the warehouse layout and inventory strategy, to reduce the logistics cost and the
23、 pollution to the environment. Green storage requires reasonable warehouse layout, whether dense or loose layout, it will produce the waste of resources. Green storage needs to optimize the inventory strategy. On one hand, it will occupy too much fund and lead torpidity of turn over fund especially
24、increasing storage costs if the materials storage is too large. On the other hand, it will produce shortage cost if the materials storage is too small. The enterprise must trades off two options and finds out an optimized alternative. For those reasons, it is necessary to analyse and research on the
25、 quantity of supply and demand, and calculate the inventory cost rate in order to adopt the appropriate inventory strategy and reduce inventory cost .Green packaging As one of logistics functions elements, packaging is an important measure in logistics and marketing sales. Green packaging requires t
26、he logistics enterprise to use an appropriate packaging material which can recycle, and no harmfulness and pollution to human being and the environment. The green packaging goes through the entire logistics process and requires companies to prevent the environment from being polluted by the packagin
27、g in manufacturing process, logistics, marketing activities, and consumption area. Logistics enterprise which provides packaging service should reform packaging with environmental means, such as using environmental materials, improving material utilization, designing foldable pack to raise vehicle v
28、olume utilization rate, establishing a packaging recycling system and so on (Si xin Xie and Wenfeng Wang, 2010) For the development of environmental management, the organizational support is essential because the resources which are required for adopting green practices will be more easily to availa
29、ble and the employees will be motivated to implement green plan. Above all, the top management plays an important role in organizational support. Many green550practices require the collaboration and coordination of different departments and divisions in practice. In order to ensure successful implem
30、entation, green initiatives are usually endorsed and advocated from the top management. The central task of top management is to acquire resources and allocate them efficiently so that the company is able to adopt green practices to achieve environmental competitive advantage (Gonzalez Benito, 2006)
31、.Furthermore, the organization should strengthen the construction of logistics information system to share logistics information fully and raise the utilization of logistics resources. Moreover, the enterprise should apply the standardized management system, establish perfect organization structure
32、and management standard, coordinate all sorts of relevant standard, and provide the development platform for green logistics. Therefore, we expect that organizational support will positively affect the adoption of green practices for Chinese logistics companies ChiehyuLin and Yihui Ho, 2010).Governm
33、ent should motivate and guide logistics enterprise business behaviours. On one hand, the government gives “green taxation”, “green subsidies” to the enterprise which has the positive external effects. Otherwise, the government makes the limitation to those who have uneconomical logistics activities
34、and damage to the environment. Finally, the government encourages the public to pay constantly attention to develop green logistics. On the other hand, develop technical index system of green logistics, quantitatively manage the whole social logistics activities by electronic means, and make it oper
35、ationally and comparatively to implement the management by relevant departments (Sixin Xie and Wenfeng Wang, 2010). All in all, government plays a key role in developing green logistics in modern society. Government as the community manager, not only regulates the public behaviour, but also more con
36、cerns the sustainable development of society. Therefore, the government not only focus on economic development, but also pay attention to the environmental which impacted by the economic development, and green logistics can ensure the sustainable development for the economy development. Green logist
37、ics will be unable to perform without the government participation. From the environment measures perspective, there are some tactics for developing green logistics in China: Improve the public consciousness of environmental protection and. Although the environmental awareness is increasing dramatic
38、ally by more and more enterprises and consumers, it still could not keep up with the need of economic development. It is necessary to propagandize environmental awareness by public service announcement and controlling economic lever measures and public service. From the public consciousness perspect
39、ive, promote the development of green logistics in modern society. Strengthen theoretical study and talent cultivation about green logistics. Firstly, colleges and universities should offer more modern logistics courses including environmental science which related with green logistics, offer multi-
40、stratification education with undergraduate and graduate with green conceptions, train the senior manager and professional talents for modern green logistics. Secondly, accelerate the vocational qualification certification and training, strength hen the supervision and control to the certification a
41、nd training (Guochuan Yang, 2010).CIn order to pursue sustainable development in modern society, environmental issues have become serious concerns all over the world. There are some strategies to accelerate the development of green logistics in practice. However, green logistics is not only the logi
42、stics enterprises business, but also the future of the whole community. Green logistics needs the participation of the whole society. Although there are some alternatives have been found out, the cooperative dispatching mode still need to have further research. 随着中国社会的现代化和公共环保意识的提高，所有人的观点都认为中国的物流行业的
43、环境已经改变了。绿色物流的重点是关注以可持续发展的方式来生产和分发货物,并且需要考虑到社会和环境因素。绿色物流活动包括分析不同的分销策略对环境产生的差异影响，减少在物流活动中的能源使用,减少浪费并且管理这些分析得来的结论(阿卜杜勒- 卡德尔，理查德wEglese,2010)。现代绿色物流管理作为一种新的物流管理方式,符合时代发展的要求和人类生存和发展的好处,也代表了物流管理未来的发展方向和趋势 (达陈,2001) 。越来越多的人关注绿色物流,因为传统物流不但不能满足现代社会的需求,而且还对环境造成了巨大的破坏。因此, 企业、政府和公众对发展绿色物流的兴趣越来越浓。然而,绿色物流在中国是一个相当
44、新的概念,中国针对绿色物流的了解非常有限，并且与绿色物流相关的政策法规、必要的基础设施以及信息技术和人员的培训都十分匮乏。因此,中国在发展绿色物流的道路上仍是障碍重重,中国只有消除了这些障碍，绿色物流才能的到更好的表现和发展。绿色物流的发展对于实现可持续发展战略是一个重要的问题。可持续发展战略是指社会经济发展必须同自然环境的联系,社会环境,协调资源,确保社会发展有一个良性的循环。目前,经济和社会发展面临许多社会问题在中国,环境污染是一个严重的问题。绿色物流强调发展概念的资源保护和环境保护。实施绿色物流是一种本质上的方法促进了社会和经济的可持续发展。发展绿色物流可以鼓励企业获取新的竞争优势随着经
45、济全球化的发展,外国物流企业已经着手处理中国市场,这将带来巨大的压力和冲击,国内物流企业。与此同时,严重的环境问题和法律法规的限制,迫使企业在经济活动中解决问题。可持续发展,企业应树立绿色物流系统和追求更高的竞争优势通过绿色物流战略。显然,发展绿色物流不仅是社会的需要,也是企业的需要。此外,绿色物流可以降低操作成本大幅。统计数据表明,只有 10%的时间是制造业,几乎 90%的时间是运输、装卸、包装或二次加工和信息加工过程中产品从制造商到消费者。因此,物流专业化无疑是一个关键的方法来降低成本。绿色物流不仅是一般物流重大减少成本,而且更重要的环境、节能、效率高。企业应加快发展绿色物流,以获得新的竞争优势,应对未来的挑战
