The Impact of Green Procurement on Consequences of Green Supply Chain Management

Nowadays, sustainable development in the concept of green supply chain management in the field of production and operations management and the rules and principles of green throughout the supply chain, from upstream, internal and downstream should be considered equally. On the basis of this research has been focused on the upstream supply chain to determine the effectiveness of green procurement outcomes Green Supply Chain Management in the cement industry that is one of the major industries in Iran. The study of the branches of the cross correlation is based on structural equation modeling. The population of this study is to include all managers and experts cement factories of Fars province in Iran. Using a two-stage cluster sampling method and sample size of 103 was Morgan and finally 132 questionnaires were collected by means of questionnaire and LISREL software to test the hypothesis that a valid application of structural equation modeling is used. After examining assumptions, it was found that green procurement and significant positive impact on outcomes of green supply chain management that includes four of the consequences of operational, economic, environmental and intangible.