Virtually every link in your supply chain can be made more sustainable, from packaging to building maintenance.

In 2009, Supply Chain & Logistics Canada produced reports on green supply chain management in logistics and transportation services, manufacturing, and retail chains and consumer products. They found the bottom-line benefits of going green include:

• Reduced distribution costs
• Greater energy efficiency
• Service differentiation
• Customer retention
• Lower greenhouse gas emissions
• Water conservation
• Waste reduction
• Less packaging
• Product and packaging recycling and reuse
• Enhanced compliance with environmental regulations
• Access to new markets
• Improved risk management
• Increased sales

Today’s consumers want to know that companies are dealing with a green supply chain – that’s the number one driver.

- Bob Armstrong, President,
Supply Chain & Logistics Canada

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