# Effect of IoT Capabilities and Energy Consumption behavior on Green Supply Chain Integration
## 4 Discussion and Conclusions  
In the field of supply chain management, supply chain integration is a practically implemented concept in every organization because supply chain integration aligns organizational activities, processes, customers, and suppliers with manufacturers. In previous literature on supply chains, the relationship between supply chain integration and supply chain performance was already established. There is a positive and significant relationship between SI and supply chain performance. Also, in the same way, the positive and significant relationships in CI and supply chain performance are already established in the previous literature [41; 100]. In this study, the empirical results show a positive and significant effect of CI and SI on GSCP, that are consistent with previous studies. Internet of Things (IoT) has a direct effect on SI and CI. Also, IoT has an indirect effect on supply chain performance with a mediating effect on SI and CI, as was found in supply chain literature [11]. In this study, IoT has been considered as an independent variable whereas CI and SI are considered as mediating variables between IoT and GSCP. The empirical results of this study show that IoT has a positive effect on both CI and SI. Furthermore, both CI and SI have mediating roles between IoT and GSCP since the results are significant and positive. The results are consistent with the earlier literature in the supply chain domain [11]. In this study, ECB has moderated the relationship between IoT, CI, and SI. This relationship was not investigated and developed in the previous literature. The moderated relationship of ECB is the major contribution of this study to knowledge. However, the results of the moderated effects are amazing; both interaction terms have a negative but significant effect. The negative interaction effect shows that the combined effect of ECB and IoT is less than the individual effect of IoT on CI and SI. The reason for this negative interaction effect is that the implementation of IoT can automatically create awareness to develop the energy consumption behavior. So, when both variables are taken together, respondents understand both variables as separate identities that are chronically different to each other. Figure 6: Path coefficients for green supply chain performance. This difference has created a negative and a significant interaction effect. On the other hand, the direct relationship between IoT and SI, and CI has a positive and significant effect. Green training acts as a moderator in SI, CI, and GSCP. Such a relationship has not previously been considered in the preceding studies. It is the second contribution of this study. The empirical results show that GT can affect the GSCP directly. The direct relationship between GSCP practices and GT has a positive and significant effect in this study that was consistent with previous literature [69]. On the other hand, the moderator effect of GT between SI, CI, and GSCP is considered in this study, but it is not supported by the data. The results reflect the insignificant interaction effect of GT with IoT and GSCP. Therefore, GT has been observed as an independent variable instead of a moderator variable. It can be concluded that the implementation of IoT is beneficial for a customer, supplier, and manufacturer in supply chain management to enhance supply chain performance. The use of the internet and computerized technology also saves energy and resources. Boosting GSCP can protect the environment and result in the better economic performance of organizations. IoT can affect supplier and customer integration of internal supply chain integration, which is affected by GT and ECB to improve GSCP. Contingency theory supports this study because there is no perfect solution to all the organizational problems.