Greening for sustainable development is an important area for researchers as well as practitioners. Sustainability issues have now become a challenge and these result from unethical and irresponsible business operations. Three thousand of the world’s largest corporations are contributing to almost $2 trillion in terms of negative social and environmental externalities a year (Foo, Lee, Tan, & Ooi, 2018) Organizations are focusing on green practices in order to become sustainable.  . The main objective of this study is to analyze the opportunities, challenges and changing nature of strategies in implementing green supply chain management. The research adopts a systematic literature review procedure to explore the existing literature. The current study is a unique contribution for researchers as well as practitioners as it explains the challenges, opportunities and strategies for implementing green supply chain management.