Korean Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
The Korea Society for Life Cycle Assessment
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SCM(Supply Chain Management)을 활용한 녹색제품 협업개발: 코웨이 정수기 사례를 중심으로

김선영1, 김영삼*, 김봉섭*, 안희경**
Sunyoung Kim1, Youngsam Kim*, Bongseob Kim*, Heekyung An**
1에코네트워크(주) 에코전략사업본부
*코웨이(주) 환경경영팀
**한국생산기술연구원
1Eco Strategy Business Division in EcoNetwork Co. Ltd.
*Environmental Management Team in Coway Co. Ltd.
**Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

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Published Online: Oct 31, 2013

Abatract

To prevent Climate Change and environmental laws, companies has tried to effort disseminate cleaner production, GPs(Green Partnerships) and CPs(Carbon Partnerships) into SMEs(Small and Medium Enterprises) based on the SCM(Supply Chain Management). Korean government has supported GSCM(Green Supply Chain Management) to develop more and more such as GPs, CPs and GPDPs(Green Product Development Partnerships). Coway, the Korean well-being household electronics company has conducted the GPDPs first with 6 SMEs who produce and supply main parts of the target product, water purifier. At first, Coway constructed the green product development system related each SME's internal green part development system. Based on the system, Coway and 6 SMEs cooperative developed an improved green product environmentally. And a parent company trained green product R&D experts in SMEs. As a result, Coway Water Purifier, about 26% or more of the environmental improvement achieved was to determine the effectiveness of the system developed for this collaboration, green product development.

Keywords: GPDPs(Green Product Development Partnerships); Collaborative Development; Low Carbon, SMEs(Small and Medium Enterprises); Coway Water Purifier