BSR Insight | Unlocking Energy Efficiency in China: A Guide to Partnering With Suppliers
BSR's new guide helps global sustainability professionals establish supply chain energy-efficiency programs, with a focus on China. The report outlines how companies can succeed with a four-step process that includes building foundations for a comprehensive program, helping suppliers take the first steps, facilitating progress over time, and enhancing the program's impacts.
The report also makes the following recommendations to help companies drive progress with their suppliers:
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- Orient suppliers with best energy-management practices and share staff, trainers, and other resources that that can help suppliers address challenges such as garnering support from senior management.
- Offer tools such as data-reporting systems that provide suppliers with instant feedback and analytics that help them make better decisions on their own.
- Make energy efficiency more attractive by introducing incentives such as linking purchase orders to progress and telling suppliers that further collaboration will depend on responsible energy use.
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