Sustainability and Green: Moving from Concept to Action
March 24, 2010
San Diego, California
This special, concentrated one-day program is designed to ensure the senior supply management executive gains a greater understanding and insight into sustainability and green. The notion of green and sustainability, and the impact on business operations and decisions, is here to stay. And, senior management will continue to expect supply professionals to embrace and lead initiatives to protect the supply chain and the company's brand.
Sessions
- Explore supply management's role in support of brand management using the 3P — profit, planet and people — sustainability model.
- Learn how to engage and build industry sustainability initiatives and measurements and identify and overcome challenges.
- Discover implications for accounting and reporting supply chain greenhouse gas emissions as outlined in a draft standard issued by the GHG Protocol Initiative.
- Gain an understanding of selected U.S. and European climate change legislation and issues of shareholder and Attorney General Engagement.
- Discuss risk management in the context of labor, health and safety.
- Learn best practices in supply chain carbon emissions reduction from recently completed study, "CDP Supply Chain Report 2010" by A.T. Kearney and the Carbon Disclosure Project.
- Check out a "sustainability/green maturity model"
The Center
The A.T. Kearney Center for Strategic Supply Leadership at the Institute for Supply Management™ is an exclusive thought-development forum of C-level supply management executives, CPOs, and other senior executives who work through the challenges and opportunities of the next two to four years to build competitive business and supply capabilities today, while providing unique executive development and networking opportunities.