窥探到零售商的可持续性的未来竞彩足球app怎么下载

In our work helping retailers and retail suppliers embed sustainability into their businesses to build competitive advantage, CEOs ask us a lot of questions.

These three may be the most common:

1.有多严重可持续性的零售商？竞彩足球app怎么下载
2. Will they hold suppliers accountable? If so, when and how?
3. Where are retailers driving with sustainability?

The answer to the first question hasn't changed for years, except to solidify. Some retailers take sustainability more seriously than others, but on the whole, retailers are getting smarter and tougher about sustainability as they realize it's plain good business. Suppliers often see variation in retailers' commitments, but the long-term view verifies long-term commitment.

For example, this is what沃尔玛（Walmart）has been doing on sustainability for the past decade:

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Regarding the second question of supplier accountability, different retailers have different sustainability expectations for their vendors, but savvy suppliers are starting to realize that sustainability is inevitable and they are taking steps to get ahead now. For one thing, retailers' continual quest to squeeze inefficiencies out of their operations and their products creates a threat and an opportunity. Those suppliers who proactively scan and improve their supply chains using sustainability as a tool will hold a competitive advantage over rivals who also get squeezed but have no strategy to find additional savings.

其次，零售商都意识到，一个管理良好的公司往往在各方面得到很好的管理，而管理不善的一个可能带有看不见的风险。作为一个零售CEO帧它，谁忽视或掩盖其持续表现不佳的供应商很可能被忽略或隐藏其他不好的事情为好。竞彩足球app怎么下载

Expect retailers to shift over time away from suppliers with poor sustainability performance to those who embrace sustainability as an opportunity to learn, improve their business and lead their sectors.

第三，零售商行为老资格的观察家明白，今天的内部做法将成为明天的供应链期望。这是透明的时代，只是良好的业务;由于零售商中试可持续性创新，以降低风险，提高效率竞彩足球app怎么下载，增强质量和品牌号召力，而不是保持其成功的秘密，越来越多的人选择乘的整体利益（和尽量减少整体风险）通过其供应级联更好的实践链。

The third question about the future of sustainability in the retail industry has several answers. Greater transparency and supplier engagement are clear trends. To identify others, watch where retailers invest collaborative energy. Pre-competitive sustainability collaborations such asThe Sustainability Consortium，以及那些产业集团，其中包括Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition,奶业管理公司and the可持续服装联盟, are proving durable because they're delivering real insights and real value to their member organizations. The proliferation of these efforts implies that retailers see sustainability as a vital part of their future. Suppliers who want to understand specific questions retailers will ask would be wise to pay attention.

未来发展方向的另一个指标是自己说的零售商。其可持续性的行动和计划，该调查数十家大零售商的后竞彩足球app怎么下载零售业领导者协会（RILA）发布了其2013 Sustainability Report。虽然自我报告always carries some risk of distortion, several consistent trends appeared. For example, the report found growth in both the size of sustainability teams within retailers and the scope of sustainability issues retailers are addressing. This implies that many retailers are graduating from the pilot phase of sustainability and institutionalizing the function as a driver of business value.

To support ongoing performance improvement, retailers are clarifying and strengthening their sustainability metrics. Most companies engaged in sustainability track basic indicators of efficiency such as energy and material consumption, as well as waste generated. But leaders are not stopping there. RILA identifies a growing number of retailers who plan to begin measuring water usage, renewable energy generation and chemicals of concern during the next two years.

研究还发现，可持续性开始从零售商的直接操作波及到他们的供应竞彩足球app怎么下载链。

"Retailers are realizing that their in-store impacts are small compared to the impact of their supply chains," says Adam Siegel, RILA's vice president of sustainability. "So they're planning to engage their supply chains through many mechanisms in the coming years. Transparency -- including disclosure of the social and environmental impacts of product supply chains -- is growing. Many already focus on transportation, chemicals of concern and packaging; in the future, companies will be tracking all aspects of the product life cycle from design through disposal."

For retailers and suppliers alike, the messages are clear:

1.可竞彩足球app怎么下载持续发展提供业务价值。
2. Your competitors are doing it, or soon will be.
3. Today is a great day to start, because the sooner you start, the faster you'll reap benefits and the less ground you'll have to make up. Tomorrow may be too late.

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