Green Options » greenwala http://greenoptions.com/tag/greenwala Posts tagged 'greenwala' Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Three, fresh ways to green your supply chain - better and faster http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/29/three-fresh-ways-to-green-your-supply-chain-better-and-faster/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/29/three-fresh-ways-to-green-your-supply-chain-better-and-faster/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:03 +0000 Olga Orda http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/10/29/three-fresh-ways-to-green-your-supply-chain-better-and-faster/ We saw Wal-Mart, a company with worldwide-wide revenues only second to Exxon-Mobile, signal last week in Beijing that it is moving away from “intermittent transactions with many suppliers toward longer-term arrangements with a smaller group of manufacturers“. Then, this week in the news, IBM starts on a roll to eliminate the ‘burden’ of paper — including paper costs, compliance risks and environmental challenges — from their customers’ supply chains with a handful of recently launched software and services.

What is going on here? Both companies are adopting tactics used by sustainability minded entrepreneurs as part of the time tested sustainability supply chain model: measure, purchase local where possible, maintain long-term relationships and integrate accountability at all ‘nodes’ of the chain.

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