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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Eric Hiller gave us a granola definition in his first post on sustainability over on Cost Cents. Eric’s take on the debate is that a business should understand how to cost or value the profit of a sustainability initiative, since businesses have to be sustainable themselves before they can “go green” or “save the planet”. […]
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Even though it’s a topic the doctor mentions regularly (see AMR’s 7 Supply Chain Best Practices, and Procurement Lead Time Optimization, and The Benefits and Risks of Global Product Development, for example), it’s something that he rarely dedicates a post to. However, since, Supply and Demand Chain Executive recently published an article by Heather […]
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The latest issue of The Economist, not wanting to be outdone, just ran a number of articles on sustainability that are, at the very least, worth a mention. Today we tackle the last five.In do it right, we are reminded that the industry has been more or less shaken into adopting CSR policy, that […]
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Over on Spend Matters, Jason Busch gave us a teaser when he asked how green / sustainable procurement will play in a recession. According to Jason, while it would be easy to dismiss green and sustainable procurement practices as a luxury for companies to invest in when times are good, I actually believe that […]
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The latest issue of The Economist, not wanting to be outdone, just ran a number of articles on sustainability that are, at the very least, worth a mention. Today we tackle the first five.In how good should your business be?, the article points out that corporate social responsibility has limits and asks if the […]
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Alan Buxton of Where Next threw another post into the sustainability debate, reminding that auctions are only sustainable if used properly. Done wrong, they can force suppliers to lower their prices to such a degree that they risk being driven out of business (bad for economic stability) and incentivize suppliers to cut corners in […]
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Today I’d like to welcome Paul Martyn of Track Management Group with his thoughts on the sustainability debate. Friedrich Nietzsche loves sustainability. I feel safe in saying this because sustainability is inline with Nietzsche’s philosophy of perspectivism. Not to bore you to death, but, according to Wikipedia, the basic idea of perspectivism “is […]
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