Sustainable Supply Chains, Operations Management, and
Information Technology
Donna M. Schaeffer and Cynthia Knott Eck, Marymount
University
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Sustainability: The capacity to endure |
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Supply Chain: The sequence of processes involved in the production and distribution
of a commodity. |
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Operations Management: An area of management concerned with
overseeing, designing, and redesigning business
operations in the production of
goods and/or services. |
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Information Technology: The use of computers and telecommunications
to retrieve, store
and transmit information. |
Legal
Requirements:
The California
Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 (SB 657)
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In effect January 1, 2012
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requires large
retailers and manufacturers that do business in the state of California, and
that have gross worldwide sales of over $100 Million Dollars, to be transparent
about the efforts they have undertaken to eradicate Slavery and Human
Trafficking in their supply chain.
Agreements
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ISO 14001 |
Specifies an Environmental Management
System that enables the organization to:
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Sustainable site selection ·
Water efficiency ·
Energy and atmosphere ·
Indoor environmental quality ·
Location and linkages ·
Awareness and Education ·
Innovation and Design ·
Regional Priorities |
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Frequency
Relevancy Analysis of Problems (FRAP) ·
how often a problem occurs) on the
vertical axis and the relevancy or severity of each of the problems on the
horizontal axis. ·
Problems with both a high frequency and relevancy need
to be tackled first. Total
Productive Maintenance ·
a program that prevents defects, waste and down times
and extends the life of equipment ·
empowers
employees to initiate corrective action |
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sustainability standards for suppliers ·
an early-warning system to minimize risk ·
transparency in the procurement process ·
supply monitoring and development ·
international labor migration ·
ethical trade ·
continuous improvement |
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Exemplary
Organizations
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Company |
Operations Management |
Information
Technology |
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At one of its
sites, it analyzes real-time data on water usage and quality collected by
hundreds of sensors across the plant. Results of process
improvements based on this information have already reduced overall water
usage by 27 percent while increasing manufacturing production by more than 30
percent. Savings so far have
amounted to US$3 million a year. |
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HP owns
and leases facilities worldwide. ·
Cut absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
operations (not including travel) to 20% below 2005 levels by 2013 ·
Global Non-Hazardous Waste 2010
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Sprint's Long-Term Environmental Goals 1.
We
will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2017. 2.
We
will secure 10 percent of Sprint's energy from renewable sources by 2017. 3.
We
will reduce our electric energy consumption 15% by 2017. 4.
We
will reduce operational waste-to-landfill by 30% by 2017. 5.
We
will reduce our use of paper by 40% by 2017. 6.
We
will send for reuse or recycle all of our Network and IT e-waste by 2017. 7.
We
will ensure that 90% of our suppliers, based on spend, meet our social and
environmental criteria by 2017. 8.
We
will collect nine phones for reuse and recycling for every 10 Sprint sells
annually - a 90% collection rate, by 2017. 9.
We
will ensure 70% of wireless devices launched quarterly meet Sprint
environmental criteria. |
simplified the hardware and
software footprint in data centers. Reduced
IT-based power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by retiring more than
3,850 servers. Virtualization |
