Abstract
The environment management issues have been formally adopted on the global agenda; any enterprises and organizations can no longer consider them normal incidents. Among those environmental protection clauses, there are the WEEE and RoHS which have the most impacts on the electronic industries in Taiwan. It is imperative for the enterprises to adopt WEEE and RoHS for all their products to gain the competitive advantages. This thesis first studied how WEEE and RoHS might impact the Taiwan’s electronic industries in upstream and downstream including electronic manufacturing, assembly and test companies. It then analyzed how a company’s purchasing teams worked with external suppliers to formulate the green supply chain strategy to achieve a phased progress in meeting the requirements. It found through the case studies that the purchasing teams, in corporation with the suppliers, were able to accomplish the short term green-product goal by adopting the green purchasing practices. In addition, the ISO 14000 green purchasing procedures integrated in the green purchasing practices could help meet the more strict laws and regulations; thus it could reduce the impacts on the companies’ operations and shorten the launching time of products when the more strict laws and regulations are required. Moreover, the green purchase practices not only helped establishing the company’s image but gained the practical benefit of cost reduction.