Chapter 8
Scaling a Green Organization
Operational transformations are becoming a significant differentiator and value generator for businesses. And customers are taking note.
In the “good old days,” supply chains and sourcing departments were primarily focused on cost; when less plastic is used in packing and the overall mass of the end product is reduced, the cost of the good is reduced. Sourcing models were refined to understand all the inputs—including the fossil fuel inputs that were used to create the plastic—to ultimately arrive at an optimal manufacturing price of the good. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms tracked fuel prices. Fabric firms tracked fuel prices. Every product firm tracked oil, and every service-oriented firm that relied ...
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