"With the dramatic rise of Green Supply Chain thinking, it is clear that many companies will confront the need or desire to track the "Green-ness" of their supplier base.
But how will that actually be achieved? To date, virtually every report any company has offered has been dependent on self-reporting by suppliers. Wal-Mart has recently announced plans for scorecarding Sustainability performance by its suppliers, but how this will actually be implemented is not completely clear.
Among the key questions: will the Green measures be direct, or indirect? Meaning, will scorecards try to directly measure carbon emissions, or will they use other measures, such as metrics around transportation modes and efficiency, that drive overall Green performance?
It may wind up being a combination, but we think the indirect measures will be easier to capture - and likely be more accurate.
A draft of what such a Green supplier scorecard might look like in the area of transportation is presented below.
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