Environmental Supply Chain Forum Greening the Public Sector Opportunities for Purchasing and Supply

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumGreening the
Public Sector - Opportunities for Purchasing and
Supply

• Barbara Morton
• Manchester School of Management , UMIST
• Skipton House Friday 15 March 2002

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Environmental Supply Chain Forum

• Established 1996
• Wide audience
• Procurement, purchasing managers
• Environmental managers
• Continues to expand - new members

Barbara Morton, MSM
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Environmental Supply Chain Forum Participants
include

• AMEC
• Belfast City Council
• BICC Cables
• Body Shop
• Carillion
• Co-operative Bank
• Halfords Limited
• Nortel Networks

• Rolls Royce
• Safeway Stores
• United Utilities
• Vertex Data Science
• Volvo Car UK
• Xerox Ltd
• Yorkshire Water

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumRecent
developments

• Collaboration with City University, Hong Kong
• Inauguration of Forum for Environmental Supply
  Chain Management
• Dr Richard Fung on sabbatical at UMIST
• Development of portal

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumTopics Covered

• Themes
• Supplier environmental assessment
• Integrating environmental criteria into
  purchasing practice
• Sectors
• Aerospace
• Construction
• Public sector

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumRecent
developments

• CIPS Environment Green Issues Policy Group
• United Utilities - Sustainable Procurement
• Forum for the Future - Sustainable Purchasing
• Interchange - Sustainable Construction
• JPPSG Environmental Procurement Benchmarking
• Environmental Performance Indicators - HEFCE
• Managing Buildings Sustainably - DTI

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumPlans

• Sustainable Purchasing, Procurement, Supply Chain
  Management
• Proposal for a NETWORK
• Partners
• industry
• public sector
• academics

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumPlans

• Interested?
• Forum members will receive information by email
• Join Forum
• Contact Barbara Morton for further details
• See web site

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumPlans

• With BSI Centre for Sustainable Design
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management Toolkit
• Maximum Value
• Risk Profiling
• Sustainable Performance
• Knowledge and Information Management
• Whole Life Costing
• 2 years
• 2500 - 5000

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Environmental Supply Chain ForumFuture Meetings

• Repeat meeting
• due to popular demand!
• Meeting in Scotland
• autumn 2002
• Joint meetings
• use evaluation forms to suggest topics

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Environmental Supply Chain Forum
Further information http//www.greensupply.org.uk
Thank you
Barbara Morton, MSM