Factors Influencing the Indian Publishing Industry towards Making Investments in Green ERP practices

The green business technocrats are thinking of reenergizing the entire business towards what is coming down to the New Year. The new arena gazed towards the green practices in ERP management through Enterprise Resource Planning. It is not simply cost controlling techniques but it will change the entire work structures of the organization. This green ERP initiative paves the ways to step up research to produce goods that require much less wastage, including water, from consumers. Under this initiative, the entire business process is studied and analyzed thoroughly right from procurement of raw materials and distribution of finished goods. Surely, this idea will promote a paradigm shift in the outlook of the corporate world. This study enhances the application of green business strategies in the field of ERP management of books publishing industry. This is a descriptive research. The research period is from November 2014 to December 2014. The compiled data are analyzed using percentage analysis, cross tabulations, frequency distributions and factor analysis. For years, most ERP programs have included a similar, somewhat narrow range of demands. This green practices pushed that envelope to dive much deeper into supplier practices like waste control, stockings, etc., These new announcements also expand the demands in different ways. In recent years, the book publishing companies are practicing the 'print n demand' concept to enrich more innovativeness in their ERP management.