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Balancing cost, customer service and sustainability to achieve a high-performance supply chain.
It is often held that reducing carbon emissions will increase supply chain costs. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the Accenture High Performance Supply Chain survey suggests that the organizations with the most effective supply chains in terms of both customer service and cost effectiveness are ahead of the curve when it comes to implementing sustainability practices.
High-performance businesses, in other words, tend to be masters of the supply chain. These businesses are taking practical steps to embed sustainability into their day-to-day supply chain operations—and this research indicates that there are five key steps that should be followed to do so.
February 26, 2009
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