Abstract:
Textile and garment industry has been played a significant role in the economy of Thailand by their continuous growth. Anyways, the industry is not quite an environmentally friendly because of the complexity of product life cycles and chemicals used in production; which is contradictory to consumer eco-friendly trends.
PY Trading Co., Ltd is one of the big textile and garment industry in Thailand. The company also pays attention to environmentally friendly aspect and tries to develop and integrate their Green Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Therefore the company focused on reducing logistics costs in three main aspects; Inventory Cost (45%) Transportation Cost (45%) and Administration Cost (10%). The companys nine logistics activities were measured by performance assessment tools and efficiency assessment is implemented in three dimensions (cost, time and reliability). Then the company had been found that warehouse management is its drawback. The research data was collected and analyzed. Then the companys Green Logistics and Supply Chain Management was developed by integration of Pareto Chart, ABC Analysis, industrial system planning and Kanban.
The results of this study showed that by implementing warehouse management, total operation cost should be reduced by 100,612.5 THB/year (from 21,600 THB/year of inventory counting cost and 79,012.5 THB/year of inventory issuing cost). Greenhouse gases emission from inventory counting cost reduction should be reduced by 141.44 KgCO2eq/year and greenhouse gases emission from inventory issuing cost reduction should be reduced by 54,180 KgCO2eq/year. From this study, logistics activities cost will be reduced according to the reduction of companys inventory cost which conforms to Green Logistics and Supply Chain Management concept.