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The hypothesis of Green supply chain management is to integrate environmental thinking into the supply chain management. The strategic goal of Green supply chain management is to reduce cycle time and inventory and thus increasing productivity. It is the process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient and effective inbound flow and storage of secondary or moving goods from their typical final destinations for the purpose of capturing value or proper disposal. Beyond good business greening the supply chain is everyone’s issue. The reverse supply chain management is new in the field of business logistics. As Green supply chain management is important in determining the total environmental impact of any organization involved in supply chain management. The reverse logistics connects the end customer to the manufacturer through the supplier. Green supply chain management is in the terms of less environment risks and waste costs. There is a growing need for affiliating environmentally sound choices into supply chain management. Environmental sustainability is an indefinite continuation of renewable and non-renewable resources depletion. The challenges of Green supply chain management are huge is that the high level of uncertainty about market position. Green supply chain management is evaluated in order to reduce low cost, the process frequently take by the company to adopt the ecological initiatives. It is the fact that the more strongly environmentally friendly as supply chain goes, the more attention it drags and the better marketing it gets. The literature on Green supply chain management is covered exhaustively from its conceptualisation, basically taken from a reverse logistics angle. Green supply chain management is a multidimensional concept which can be measured from different frame of references. To learn and to implement a nature friendly Green supply chain management will help in the long term endurable of the consumer, the companies and the planet.