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Supply Management's Strategic Role in Environmental Practices
How to more effectively engage the supply management function.
(TEMPE, Arizona) February 2, 2009 – Most companies realize that environmental sustainability
performance is a critical issue. Fortunately, the supply management function has
the opportunity to engage heavily in these programs, but many professionals are
unsure of what their role might be for strategic contribution. This study, based
on a series of focus group interviews, provides guidance for those wanting to implement
environmental practices and supply management strategies within their organizations.
It discusses the business case requirements; top management support requirements;
the complexity of defining "success" in this area; the need for standard definitions;
barriers such as costs, metrics, and resources; the supply base’s role in new technologies;
and the overall expanded role of supply management.
The most frequently mentioned drivers of environmental practices across the focus
groups in this study included: top management support; regulation and certification;
customer demand; environmentally sensitive employees; cost; and socially responsible
communities and investors.
Authors Thomas Gattiker, Ph.D.; Wendy Tate, Ph.D. and Craig Carter, Ph.D., provide
steps for creating situations that encourage primary contributors to integrate the
firm's environmental objectives. These steps include: establishing a clear company-specific
definition of the term environmental, integrating the organization's environmental
goals into formal supply management strategy, recognizing the barriers that managers
encounter, understanding the steps that can be taken to overcome barriers, organizing
for cross-functional involvement and preparing for the new roles that supply management
will need to play in the future.
Click on the following link to access the Focus Study, "Supply Management’s Strategic
Role in Environmental Practices:"
http://www.capsresearch.org/publications/pdfs-protected/gattiker2008.pdf
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