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Is it just me, or has the quantity and quality of sourcing and supply-chain related articles on Industry Week significantly increased in the first quarter of this year? I just stumbled upon another great article titled Table Scraps that noted that enterprising thieves have figured out that scrap means money, so why does the [...]
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Last month, Jason Busch gave the sourcing world an introduction to EcoVadis in his two part series (Part I and Part II) over on Spend Matters. In his posts, he noted that EcoVadis was a European (and, in particular, a French) provider of a sustainability solution for evaluating and monitoring suppliers whose primary focus is [...]
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Industry Week recently ran an interesting article on How to Produce More for Less that noted that not only is overall manufacturing the largest end user of energy in the United States, but process manufacturers are the top five industrial energy consumers with chemical manufacturing (3.769 Trillion BTUs), petroleum refining (3.086 Trillion BTUs), pulp and [...]
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While scanning Logistics Management, an article by Jeff Berman that said a new approach for sustainable supply chains is needed caught my eye. I’m a big believer in sustainability, but I’m also a strong believer that in their effort to jump on the bandwagon, some companies, governments, and individuals are doing - to be [...]
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Earlier this month, Integrity Interactive announced the formation of a Supplier Ethics Management (SEM) Charter Group with Ryder System, Inc., H. J. Heinz Company, and bioMerieux as founding members. The goal of this initiative, as outlined in the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Article on Combining Forces to Improve Ethics and Compliance in the [...]
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First of all, the doctor would like to thank all of the bloggers and guest bloggers who participated in the first Sourcing Innovation sponsored cross-blog series of 2008. With nineteen participants and well over thirty postings on the topic, the doctor believes it was a great success. In case you missed a post, [...]
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Yesterday, Wired published an article summarizing the recent State of Green Business 2008 from Greener Media which gives a bracingly candid interpretation of businesses’ green and greenwashing efforts. The report found that only 8 of 20 indicators showed progress in 2007 while 2 of the indicators, e-waste and carbon intensity, actually got worse. [...]
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Over on Spend Matters, Jason Busch points out that the market, and not regulation, is the reason sustainability wins. He points out that maybe we should review Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point to better understand how trends become standard practice. He notes that sustainability in the supply chain is on the verge of [...]
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Sustainability may be more … much more … than being green, but that doesn’t mean one should ignore the great article that recently popped up over on Chief Executive.The article essentially starts off by noting that while CEOs would argue that global warming is a legitimate universal problem to be solved, they may not be [...]
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Last November, the Supply Chain Management Review ran an article on The Sustainable Supply Chain that noted that being sustainable is now a source of competitive advantage and a matter of corporate survival rather than a costly inconvenience. The article, based on a study by A.T. Kearney and the ISM that surveyed a diverse [...]
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