Performance evaluation for lean supply chain: a balanced scorecard framework

There are new business paradigms as lean and green to develop improvements on the supply chain performance. The performance evaluation has become an important subject getting competitive advantages in organizations and their supply chains. To get a balanced performance measurement system a balanced scorecard (BSC) may be develop. This study is motivated by the lack of evidence on the supply chain performance measurement; it pretends to explore the effect of lean and green supply chain through a BSC framework. To achieve this purpose a four perspectives BSC was developed based on cause-and-effect relationships. To identify how to develop the BSC for incorporating lean and green supply chain performance, a brief literature review is presented. This paper proposes a conceptual model to explore how lean and green supply chain performance may be studied, using a BSC perspective.