ATE - How Green is your supply chain?

Environmental consciousness is driving more pro-active behavior, as organizations discover that it makes good commercial sense. Boards are asking managers to review their policies, not only to bolster their corporate social responsibility aims, but also because consumers are increasingly asking for it and often are prepared to pay more.However, a recent analysis has revealed that organizations remain primarily focused on having environmentally conscious internal production. For example, any company can become carbon neutral by outsourcing its production, but shifting the carbon producing activity within the supply chains does nothing more than hide the dirt under someone else's carpet.A holistic approach is required, and this is provided by adoption of a Green Supply Chain methodology. We believe asking the following five fundamental questions will really help to focus the discussion and crystallize action plans:\r
1. What are the tangible and intangible benefits of moving towards a Green Supply Chain?\r
2. What are the costs, both direct, and indirect?\r
3. What influence do we have over our suppliers, their suppliers and our customers (especially the party with the most power in the supply chain) that would allow us to jointly work together and move the supply chain towards a green supply chain?\r
4. How will we communicate and measure our progress towards the green supply chain to the key stakeholders? How will we engage them?\r
5. What barriers to Green Supply Chains can be expected and how can these be overcome?This session explores provide answer to these questions as well as answer issues people may want to raise, all based on our book; 'Green Supply Chains, an Action Manifesto' (Emmett and Sood 2010).Our Expert\r
Stuart Emmett MSc. BA (Hons) FCILT; FCMI; MCIPS; MCIPD; M. Inst.LMStuart is a freelance independent trainer and author who has operational and strategic experience in varied commercial service industries - gained in the UK and Nigeria - and is particularly interested in the 'people issues' of\r
management processes, as well as logistics and supply chain management. He has worked on 6 continents, in over 30 countries and delivered to over 50 nationalities and has also written over 25 books on supply chain and leadership/management topics. Stuart can be contacted at stuart@learnandchange.comTHERE ARE NO SLIDES ON THIS WEBINAR!