country or similar challenges. These processes may negatively impact on the environment, and range from diminishing natural resources, air emissions, waste disposal, increases in natural disasters. The increasing pressures from various stakeholders to improve businesses' environmental sustainability, in turn, businesses recognise that environmental management is a key strategic issue with the potential for achieving sustainable organisational performance. Consequently, the deterioration of the environment and the pressure from stakeholders has led businesses to look towards their supply chain department to assist in creating a sustainable method of operating. Unilever, Pick n Pay, Woolworths, Volkswagen, Standard Bank, Pikitup and Imperial logistics are some of the businesses within the South African private sector that have taken the initiative to implement green and sustainable SCM in order to improve sustainability. In reference to some of these statements:

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(b)Broadly discuss how the sustainability can transit using the Cradle to Grave 15 MARKS