research focused on how sustainable SCM innovations are used in different countries and what expectation companies wish to implement sustainable supply chain management while this research focuses on identifying barriers and overcoming strategies in SMEs in developing countries.
1.2 Research Aim
The research will aim to explore the factors preventing successful implementation of SCM in SMEs and provide relevant overcoming strategies.
1.3 Research Objectives
Identify and rank barriers that hinder the implementation of sustainable SCM in SMEs
Identify and evaluate overcoming strategies corresponding to the barriers of implementation of sustainable SCM in SMEs.
To compare strategy used to solve sustainable supply chain problems in SMEs to large-scale enterprise

1. Methodology
   This study will use a quantitative research method based entirely on secondary data. The secondary data covers 3 aspects: Economy (eg transportation cost, manufacturing cost and profit), Environment (eg greenhouse gas emission) and Social (eg company reputation and customer satisfaction of company). These data will be obtained from journals, databases, company websites and public reports. The number of companies analyzed will be between 50-80. The datasets will be analyzed by using Multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDM), Best-Worst-Method (BWM), Structured Equation Modelling (SEM). These methods rank the barriers according to their value weighing from highest to lowest reflecting which barrier is affecting the SMEs the most and provides result showing which strategy can used to overcome the barriers.