It should be clearly understood that North American Retailer's Green Supply Chain strategy starts with the Corproate Sourcing Strategy.
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As companies work to reduce their carbon footprint, the easiest steps to take are often the closest to home.
Yet for companies with global operations or supply chains, the biggest practical wins are likely to be found in improving energy efficiency of owned and supplier facilities overseas, where they have the ability to multiply impacts across tens, hundreds, or even thousands of sites through relatively simple central coordination.
For companies looking to increase their supply chain’s energy efficiency, China is a good place to start, for a number of reasons:
• China is a top location for energy-intensive manufacturing and a key node of many supply networks.
• As the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases, China is likely to face more regulatory pressure to improve its performance.
• Due to its size, China is an ideal place to take energy-efficiency programs to scale.
BSR has spent the last several months helping Walmart establish its supplier energy efficiency program in China, where the company has set a target of improving the energy efficiency of 200 factories by 20 percent over the next three years. Working with Walmart, we have seen firsthand how initiatives from other countries can be adopted and adapted to the Chinese context.. See more the Rueters repost... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS415134081920091015
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