The Effect Of Logistic Businesses? Green Warehouse Management Practices On Business Performance

Due to the inevitable effect that businesses are living organisms, the concepts of sustainability and green have become the main values for many businesses. Today, the concept of sustainable green warehouse is commonly related with integration, balancing and management of economic, environmental and social inputs and outputs of operations in warehouses with green buildings. Sustainable green warehouse can be defined as the cluster of technological and organisational solutions designed for the efficiency of warehouse processes by maintaining the highest social standards and minimizing the effect on nature in terms of financial efficiency. However, businesses are aware that it is difficult to get effective and efficient warehousing and distribution services as third party logistics (3PL) for flows in supply chain in the present business environment. In this context, companies offering warehousing and distribution services should have values that provide them with competition advantage, increase their brand equities, and decrease operation costs such as green buildings, lighting systems with motion and time sensors, automatic handlings equipment that uses renewable energy, natural ventilating systems, solar panels, water treatment systems, ISO standards, and 5S philosophy. In near future, it will be understood that maintaining economic and operational efficiency, minimising damage to environment, and creating appropriate working environments can only be possible, and permanent via efficient management of green warehouses. The present study investigates the practice of sustainability principles in terms of warehouse, warehousing and distribution management. This paper explores the GWM practices and performance of the business an empirical analysis of logistic enterprises within Turkey.