Pollution is a big threat to the environment, and logistics is one of the major causes of pollution. Organizations are adopting sustainable practices to overcome this situation. This paper aims to study the various sustainable practices related to transportation, warehousing, packaging, and reverse logistics being followed by organizations, their impact on the organization’s performance, and the barriers they face in implementing these practices. The related journals were reviewed, and a study was done in 200 organizations of manufacturing passenger vehicles, including their supplier base. The questionnaires were prepared and tested for reliability & validation before circulation. The data collected were tested for normality, and accordingly, ANOVA and multiple regression tests were carried out using SPSS software. The results indicate that sustainable practices have a positive impact on organizational environmental, economic and operational performance. It also concludes that the organization’s size has no impact on sustainable logistics practices, whereas the internal & external barriers vary with the size of the organization. The study can be taken further by researchers for taking a larger number of industries covering other commercial vehicles also. Sustainable logistics practices are very important for organizations to manage environmental issues.

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Malik, R. K. & Sinha, G. K. (2020). Sustainable logistics in automobile passenger vehicle manufacturing organizations. International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 6(1), 1-9. doi:10.20469/ijhss.6.20001-1