Sustainable Supply Chain
Sustainability can be maximized throughout the supply chain, beginning with concept and development then continuing through all phases of production and final customer distribution. Articles here focus on efforts by materials suppliers, product manufacturers and retailers to increase sustainability. These increased sustainability efforts are made to decrease the impact of the supply chain on future generations.
Health Industry Group Launches Green Purchasing Program
The health industry is launching a common set of tools to ensure that environmentally preferred products are available and cost-competitive.
The tools for purchasers, ...
Gap Aims to Cut GHGs 20% by 2015
Gap has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2015, from a 2008 baseline, in the company’s fifth Social and Environmental ...
Kuhn Associates & ISM Discuss Sustainable Procurement
Institute for Supply Management interviews Robert W. Kuhn, president of Kuhn Associates Management Advisers, about sustainable procurement. Parts 2 & 3 ...
Nike Bows to Greenpeace, Plans to Drop Hazardous Chemicals
Sportswear giant Nike has bowed to pressure from Greenpeace and promised to eliminate all hazardous chemicals across its entire supply chain, and the ...
High Noon: Quality Management vs. REACH, RoHS, WEEE
Managers and companies responsible for compliance find themselves at a stand-off with today’s supply chain. The supply line is young, fresh, dynamic, ...
The Myth of LCA Cost and Complexity
Lifecycle analysis – the practice of measuring the environmental impacts of a product from its raw materials, through transport and processing, to ...
Pharma Sets Few Supply Chain Goals, Report Finds
Pharmaceutical companies are “all over the map” in terms of their environmental goals and transparency, but largely don't set targets for their supply ...
Sustainable Logistics Panel Discussion
This networking session featured a panel discussion with business leaders from the logistics sector, highlighting their successes and lessons learned as they have gone along their respective sustainability journeys. Bob Armstrong, President of SCL moderated ...
New CSR Portal, but Less Aggressive GHG, Renewable Energy Targets for Timberland
Footwear and outdoor apparel maker Timberland has updated its corporate sustainability reporting goals, publishing these targets in a newly launched online CSR portal.
The updated CSR ...
The Coming Consolidation of Sustainability Labels
An expert from a leading Swiss supermarket chain is predicting a major rationalization of the existing sustainable labeling ...
IBM, Accenture Lead Responsible Government Suppliers
IBM, Accenture, HP, Merck, Dell, Boeing and McKesson have all held their positions among the most responsible government contractors, according to rankings ...
Is Sustainability All about the Supply Chain?
A manufacturer of home decorative items engaged my company sometime ago to conduct a scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions inventory, mainly ...
Lego Drops APP Packaging After Greenpeace Campaign
Lego has bowed to pressure from Greenpeace, reportedly agreeing to drop supplier Asia Pulp and Paper, and the toy company says it will only use packaging ...
SC Johnson Removes Windex Green Seal, Settles Suit
SC Johnson will stop using its Greenlist logo on U.S. Windex products as part of the resolution to two lawsuits, the household products company has ...
Verizon Aims to Triple Alt Fuel Fleet by 2015
Verizon increased its number of alternative fuel vehicles more than six-fold last year, according to the company’s 2010-11 corporate responsibility report, ...
AT&T Sets 2011 Goals on Supplier Carbon, Renewables
AT&T will ensure that a majority of its spend this year goes to suppliers that track their GHG emissions or have plans to do ...
P&G, Coke, Intel, Heinz, GSK Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners
Gillette, Coca Cola, Intel, GlaxoSmithKlein and Heinz are among this year's DuPont Packaging Award winners.
“Nearly all of the winning innovations related to reducing waste in ...
Mattel Bows to Greenpeace Pressure on APP Packaging
Mattel has pledged to create a sustainable procurement policy and directed suppliers to put a freeze on purchases from Asia Pulp & Paper, ...
Turning Plants into Plastics: Challenges and Opportunities in Bioplastics for Consumer Goods Companies
In 1934, Henry Ford, the “industrial genius of modern times,” declared to Modern Mechanix magazine that in the future we will be ...
Marks & Spencer’s Mike Barry Discusses Sustainability
Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, discusses how 'Plan A' has helped M&S focus on carbon issues ...
