Links November 2009

Links to ideas that can be implemented today to improve supply chain sustainability….

Tompkin’s Associates
Article on ideas from Tompkin’s supply chain consortium. I would agree on all their suggestions and have discussed some in more detail in other posts. This list is the "low hanging fruit" that almost all companies can and should implement as soon as possible.

HK Systems Supply Chain Conference
HK Systems is a large material handling company that had a sustainability track at their conference in Park City in September. And they were nice enough to post the presentations on their website.

I highly recommend the presentation from Marc Wulfraat from TranSystems titled, “Supply Chain Strategy – What Are the Leaders Doing?”. Good information on what Walmart, Home Depot, and Kimberly Clark are doing for sustainability in the Supply Chain. But you may also want to look at the presentation from Paul Todd Merrill of Clayco on, “Challenges to Going Green” which covers the LEED process and point scoring in some detail (nothing new, but a good summary). There were two presentations on green packaging which included good overview and examples (Paul Singh Lean, Green Packaging Machines part 1, Ed Junquet Lean, Green Packaging Machines, part 2).