US firms eye green supply-chain initiatives

There is a growing level of commitment among both small and midsize US firms toward the adoption of applications that would support more environmentally friendly supply-chain initiatives, IDC said in a report today.

IDC is a Framingham firm that provides IT market intelligence.

"While the social responsibility for establishing green initiatives is now generally regarded as the norm for European companies, US firms have been slow to embrace the technologies that would support this effort,"Judy Hodges, manager of IDC's Small and Medium Business Markets: Enterprise Applications research service, said in a statement. "However, in our most recent IDC AppStats Survey,we find that small and midsize manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors in the United States are on the path toward leveraging innovative technologies to support a green supply chain."
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)

Source: boston

P&G to rethink supply chain

P&G has suggested that it will revisit the design of its supply chain if oil prices remain high. Such a move would represent a reversal of the 'distribution reinvention' which P&G announced last year.

P&G's new head of global supply, Keith Harrison, has said: "A lot of our supply chain design work was really developed and implemented in the 1980s and 1990s, when our capital spending was fairly high as a cost of capacity, and oil was 10 bucks a barrel. I could say that the supply chain design is now upside down. The environment has changed. Transportation cost is going to create an even more distributed sourcing network than we would have had otherwise."

Source by supplychainanalysis.igd.com