Download - Engaging suppliers on Sustainability
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Engaging suppliers: compliance or inspiration?
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What do you buy: companies or products?
Vs.
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So why do you put so much effort in measuring the sustainability of companies and so little in measuring the sustainability of products?
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How much do you spend auditing companies?
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How much do you spend auditing companies?The 700 questions supplier questionnaire.Very long and boring… how useful?
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Most impacts outside your boundaries
Raw Materials
InterfaceFLOR Manufacturing
InterfaceFLOR Transportation
Use & Maintenance
End of Life
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If the impacts are here, what’s the point of knowing: • corporate emissions (or carbon neutrality) • manufacturing impacts (and certificates) • locally sourced
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Long time ago we said:By 2020 all raw materials are non-virgin
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Biosfera I is the combination of a) Reducing yarn to the minimumb) 100% recycled yarn
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“InterfaceFLOR’s bold mission for zero impact on the environment and questioning of the green credentials of its suppliers encouraged us to accelerate our own journey to sustainability.
We have worked closely with InterfaceFLOR to mutually advance research and development and a key goal was to produce a viable alternative to virgin yarn, that maintains performance yet minimises environmental impact.”Giulio Bonnazzi
CEO of yarn supplier Aquafil
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Places to intervene in a system (from worse to best)• Constants, parameters, numbers
(such as subsidies, taxes, standards)
• The size of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows
• Structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport network, population age structures)
• Length of delays, relative to the rate of system changes
• Strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the effect they are trying to correct against
• Gain around driving positive feedback loops
Source: Donella Meadows, 1997
• Structure of information flow (who does and does not have access to what kinds of information)
• Rules of the system (such as incentives, punishment, constraints)
• Power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure
• Goal of the system
• Mindset or paradigm that the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters — arises out of
• Power to transcend paradigms
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More leverage Less leverage
Inspiration
Goal of the system (LCA)
Forward-looking commitments
Reassurance of buying more if producing more value
Scorecard
Compliance
Micro target
‘Don’t use this material’
Have this certification or label
Bold goal to inspire radical thinking
Celebrate successes