IMPORTANCE OF GREENING THE NORTH AMERICAN SUPPLY CHAIN
I think that the North American approach to greening
the supply chain is important because for the manufacturing
base in North America to be strong, for it to be successful,
for it to be sustainable, we have to work with the entire
supply chain.
And in North America, especially in the United States
right now, we have been able to bring resources together to
work together with original equipment manufacturers and their
supply chains and we are beginning to see some real improvement
in the way that those manufacturers are operating. We have
been able to see some processes efficiencies that we did not
see before, we are beginning to see some true environmental
performance improvements that we had not seen before and now
we are actually starting to see a lot of energy efficiency
improvements as well.
So by focusing on the supply chain you affect the entire supply
chain all the way up to the original equipment manufacturers
and I think that’s a successful way of operating.
Tom Murray, Chief, Prevention Analysis Branch, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Chair, Ad-Hoc Advisory Group, CEC Auto Supply Chain Project
The North American approach to greening the supply chain
is so very important because those supply chains interact
within North America as a whole. Materials move from Canada
to the United States to Mexico, and in all different directions
from the North to the South, the South to the North. Because
of that our environmental impact and those projects that relate
to those impacts need to be implemented.
We need to work together as a North American continent
as a whole.
John Bradburn, GM's Manager of Waste Reduction Efforts
SP Materials Efficiency Work Group Chair
