Analysis of Green Warehouse Practices in Sri Lanka

Abstract

This research has been conducted to analyse the green warehouse practices in both public and private sectors in Sri Lanka. The study has been carried out based..on research questions, where the main question could be presented as "What are the existing green warehouse practices in modern day warehouses in Sri Lanka", followed by a subsidiary question including, "The importance of those green applications to match with the international standards". Main objective of this research was, "to identify the prevailing green applications in Sri Lankan stores and thus to achieve other objectives which were identified as "to find the extent that each green practices are used in the both public and private logistics sectors" and "to categorize green warehouse practices according to the way of their practices" and yet "to make suggestions to each warehouses to improve their applications of green strategies to achieve the international standards or practices". Primary data was collected through a questionnaire survey targeting thousand two hundred responses from executive level members in selected companies fettered on stratified random sampling method and 83.3 percent of valid responces received including both thirty eight private organizations and two governmental organizations. The factor analysis of the research consists of frequency analysis, reliability test and KMO and Bartlett's test. Eleven factors have been identified as significant factors in analyses chapter and those were used to develop the factor model and hence to measure the validity. Conclusively it could be identified that, most of the private organizations are using both green energy systems and green waste water systems in their operations. Further they are practicing the green HR methods with green equipment practices. Also the green practices related to the areas of distribution, reverse logistics, purchasing, packing and wastage are highly practiced by the private sectors than the government sectors. The industry of Home appliance, Home care and Apparel in Sri Lanka are mostly practicing the green warehouse applications. Also when comparing them with the government sector, they do practice their warehouses' activities traditionally. Thus thegovernment should motivate to accept the green practices to their warehouses.