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IBM: Supplying Green

IBM is leading the charge toward sustainable supply chains by integrating environmental management systems across its global network of 28,000 suppliers in over 90 countries. These initiatives include setting goals for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and waste management, inspired by both Walmart's sustainability commitments and the necessity for improved environmental practices. With a focus on the emerging markets and a drive towards smarter solutions, IBM aims to institutionalize sustainability within its supply chain, ensuring compliance and fostering environmental responsibility among its suppliers.

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IBM: Supplying Green

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  1. IBM: Supplying Green Presented By: Britt-Marie Carlson, Hillary Gustafson, Sheryl Robinol

  2. IBM: Then • Dates back to the 19th Century • Started in tabulation machines • C-T-R=the beginning of IBM • 1920-developed lock autograph recorder & Electric Accounting Machine • Thomas Watson-president 1932

  3. IBM: Now • 1992-ThinkPad laptops • 2000 Dot Com bust • 2006 World’s Fastest SuperComputer • BlueGene • ASTRON-processing chips produced by IBM

  4. Article Overview • 28,000 suppliers in more than 90 countries install management systems to gather data on energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and waste and recycling. • Subcontractors are to do the same if part of IBM’s 40bil global supply chain. • The suppliers must also set environmental goals and publicize progress in meeting those objectives. • Follows Wal-Mart’s announcement to require suppliers to eliminate 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the life cycle of the products it sells. • IBM’s goal is to institutionalize data-gathering systems that will collect information on a variety of measures of environmental performance

  5. Article Overview • Challenge will be working with suppliers in regions of the world where sustainability is not as big an issue as it is in the United States and Europe • IBM spends 36 of supply chain budget on suppliers in North America, & 1/3 emerging markets like Brazil, China and India. • “Our overall interest is to systemize environmental management and sustainability across our global supply chain so it helps our suppliers build their own capacity in a way that’s not only good for the environment but their business” -Balta • “Ultimately, if a supplier cannot be compliant with requirements on the environment and sustainability, we’ll stop doing business with them.” -Paterson

  6. Focus: Smarter Planet • Bend retail's global supply chain to new realities of a smarter planet • Transform the way the world works. • Financial markets crisis. • Intelligence infused into the way the world literally works • World is becoming instrumented • Sensors are being embedded everywhere: in cars, appliances, cameras, roads, pipelines…even in medicine and livestock. • Making retail smarter • Accelerate supply chains. Strengthen loyalty. Improve margins

  7. IBM sensor solutions • “As a pioneer in sensor technology and a leader in IT and business strategy, our sensor solutions unlock new business value with sense and respond capabilities to drive new insights and innovation.” • Radio frequency identification (RFID) • Enable innovation • Improve visibility. Reduce costs. Increase your sales. • Track the location of finished goods across the supply chain and within stores

  8. Smarter Solutions for Retail • What a smart supply chain looks like • METRO Group is using RFID. • Each meat tray is tagged • Max Bahr, Holzhandlung GmbH • German company • “Do-it-yourself” retailer • "The [solution] has become one of the most important business tools we have for positively impacting sales and keeping us competitive." - AnjaSchöning, project manager, Max Bahr • Yansha • Chinese retailer • "Exchanging our data and interacting closely will enable us to respond to the market appropriately." - Mr. Ai Jie Ma, Director of Yansha Technical and Information Department

  9. Cited Sources • http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/sensors/ • http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/consumer_advocacy/examples/index.html • http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_2006.html • http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2008/photo/081212_bluegene_p-hirez.jpg

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