A Study on the Factors Influencing Green Warehouse Practice

Abstract

Going green in logistics business operation has been the main initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint while generating profit. This study described about the green practice and the drivers in the Malaysia warehousing industry. The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors of adopting green warehousing (GWH) with the main aim of exploring current green warehouse practice (GHP) in Malaysia and the factors affecting them. The relationship between government engagement, customer, supplier, manager, employee’s engagement, technology innovation and green warehouse practice has been analyzed. Data was gathered by survey methods. The survey was established for warehouse’s employees with superior or managerial position based in Malaysia. Quantitative methods used to emphasize the objective measurements and to identify how closed the relationship are. Data were analyzed using SPSS software in terms of inferential analysis. The key findings showed that the independent variables had a strong and significant relationship with the GWP.