Classical supply chain finance (SCF) primarily focuses on the financial service among all upstream and downstream supply chain participants. Due to the continuously deteriorating of the ecological environment, an environmental-friendly SCF system is urgently needed. In this paper, we propose a novel SCF design scheme with environmental concerns, i.e., green supply chain finance (GSCF), consider the financing channels both from banks and from consumers, and design a bi-objective optimization model that depicts the trade-off between the benefit and the emission. Further, an improved normalized normal constraint (INNC) Pareto method is developed to address the optimal financing strategy of the bi-objective model. We then conduct a numerical case of a Taiwanese steel firm to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of our method. Results show that our model provides a portfolio of optimal solutions on Pareto frontier which can be applied as an effective decision support system when designing a GSCF. Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis also presents the impact of environmental investment cost, technological ratio of companies and the interest rate of trade credit on the optimal configuration of the GSCF.
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