Effect of green supply chain management applications on logistics performance: An application in TRC 2 region

Green supply chain and logistics management has become an important tool for businesses in developed countries to address the environmental and resource issues that arise in supply chain management. Green supply chain management has an increasingly important role in reducing the environmental impact and environmental risks of the enterprise and increasing the efficiency of resource use. The practice of green supply chain management continues to expand efficient supply management while reducing energy waste, reducing emissions, protecting the environment, increasing the efficiency of resources and energy use, and improving environmental performance in business. Changes and environmental factors encountered in the structure and characteristics of competition in the Global World require businesses to have different capabilities. In particular, logistics capabilities constitute one of the important factors for sustainable competition. Logistics capabilities make positive contributions to both the logistics performance and sustainable competitiveness of enterprises of various functional sizes. This situation has become the most important element of competitive enterprises. In the research, the collected data were analyzed with SPSS by applying a questionnaire to 395 production enterprises operating in OIZs within the borders of Diyarbakır province. Correlation and regression tests were applied along with reliability and validity tests in the study. According to the results, green supply chain management practices have positive and significant effects on logistics performance.