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How Sustainability Reporting Can Help To Improve Your Bottomline

By Aysu Katun on May 17, 2010 4 Comments benefits, Bottomline, continuous improvement, CSR reporting, Deloitte, economic performance, environmental, increased transparency, Key Performance Indicators, reputation-building, risk management, social, stakeholder engagement, stakeholders, sustainability measurement, sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Reporting System, third party verification, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Increasingly more companies are starting to publish sustainability reports. Sustainability reporting as a management tool for businesses can have significant benefits.

Sustainability Initiatives are Viewed as Strategic but Lack Measurement

By Aysu Katun on January 14, 2010 2 Comments A4S Decision-Making too, Accounting for Sustainability Project, AICPA, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Brian Ballou, Center for Business Excellence (CBE), Connected Reporting, Connected Reporting Framework, Connected Reporting in Practice, corporate governance, corporate strategy, corporate sustainability, corporate sustainability leadership, corporate sustainability reports, Crowe Horwath LLP, Dan Heitger, environmental performance, Farmer School of Business, financial performanc, greenwashing, Gregg Anderson, independent green standard, McKinsey & Company, Miami University, operational efficiency, social performance, survey, sustainability initiatives, sustainability measurement, sustainability reporting

A recent survey found that the majority of corporate sustainability leaders believe that their sustainability initiatives have significant strategic value for their organizations, but also feel that measurement for these initiatives are lacking, which makes communicating the outcomes of their efforts more challenging.

Supply Chain Managers Are Not Addressing Sustainability Issues

By Tracey de Morsella on August 19, 2009 4 Comments Acceleration of ECO-Operation, Accountability, BPM, Business Performance Management Forum, carbon footprints, corporate social responsibility, CSR, demand chains.value chain, distribution costs, distribution network, E2open, ECO-Operation, eHub, environmental concerns, environmental responsibility, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenscape Score, integrated global control platform, Logistics, multi-tiered supply chain networks, operational efficiency, Operations, procurement professional, suppliers, supply chain, supply chain demands, supply chain executives, sustainability, sustainability compliance, sustainability measurement, sustainable supply chain management, sustainable transparency, visibility

Despite the enthusiasm regarding sustainability expressed by the global business community, these organizations have been slow to address these issues when it comes to sustainable supply chain management, says a new study by the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum and E2open that was conducted in the second quarter of this year. Operations, logistics and supply chain executives also lack the understanding of how to go green and save green across complex, global, multi-tiered supply and distribution networks. The study, titled “Acceleration of ECO-Operation: Achieving Success & Sustainability in the Supply Chain,” gained insights from more than 125 supply chain, operations, finance, and executive professionals around the world across multiple industries. It set out to measure and quantify how companies are managing the complexities of supply chain demands, distribution costs and environmental concerns. The study has major implications for supply chain, finance, operations, logistics, and procurement professionals and underscores the need for better ECO-Operation, sustainability measurement, and operations insight into multi-tiered supply chain networks.