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Supply chain collaboration improves sustainability and ROI
Collaborating with supply chain partners on sustainability initiatives can improve outcomes, including financial return and reduce a firm’s environmental footprint, according to a recent report by CDP and Accenture titled Supply Chain Sustainability Revealed: A Country Comparison. The company responses […]
Sustainability Reporting
From MHI Solutions Until recently, large corporations have published annual sustainability reports that focused pri-marily on their own operations. But now, in an effort to create more transparent operations, those companies are reaching out to suppliers and requesting data on […]
Making Supply Chains More Energy Efficient
From MHI Solutions Piedmont Natural Gas, a natural gas utility serving customers in the Carolinas and Tennessee for more than 60 years, may seem at first blush to have little in common with Digital Lumens, a six-year-old Boston company specializing […]
Freight Rail Driving Sustainability And Efficiency
From MHI Solutions Railroads are inherently efficient, be it in land usage, energy consumption or cost of moving goods. In fact, railroads are four times more fuel efficient than trucks, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. Because greenhouse gas emissions […]
UK’s Supply Chain Sustainability School to offer support for facilities management
by Carol Miller, MHI VP of Marketing and Communications The Supply Chain Sustainability School is expanding its service to offer support and training to suppliers and contractors in the facilities management (FM) sector. The service will launch in January 2015 and attempt […]
Sustainability & Supply Chain: Sustainability Reporting
by Sterling J. Scott, Marketing Communications Coordinator, MHI | @mhi_sterling There is growing consumer and regulatory demand for sustainable and transparent companies and business practices. This demand presents opportunities for companies to develop, improve, and showcase their commitment to sustainability while also […]