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Taking a page from Walmart’s playbook, the Procter & Gamble Company has launched a supplier environmental sustainability scorecard and rating process to measure and improve the environmental performance of its key suppliers.

The new scorecard is the result of 18 months of close collaboration with P&G’s Supplier Sustainability Board, which includes more than 20 leading supplier representatives from the company’s global  supplier network.  It will assess suppliers’ environmental impact and encourage continued improvement by measuring energy use, water use, waste disposal and greenhouse gas emissions on a year-to-year basis.

It’s worth noting that P&G also took the additional step of making the scorecard “open code,” so that any interested organization can use it. According to a press release, that’s all part the company’s effort to create an initiative that can have far reaching cross-industry impact. In fact, P&G is encouraging its suppliers to use the scorecard within their own supply chains. (more…)

A new quarterly report from Boston-based AMR Research shows that the down economy, brand threats, and product quality failures continue to be the key challenges facing global supply chains today.

Specifically, lower consumer spending ranks as the number one supply chain risk this quarter, according to 37% of the companies that participated in the AMR Research survey. 35% of respondents identified product quality failures as the second top risk. Volatile energy prices came in at number three.

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