The Survey

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Which best describes the timeframe addressed by your sustainable supply chain strategy?

Management Area: Strategy & Vision

Which best describes your environmental vision?

Management Area: Strategy & Vision

Our vision is to meet government environmental requirements through identifying non-compliance situations. Our vision is to meet government environmental requirements through understanding the requirements and designing programs to ensure compliance. Our vision is to meet and exceed governmental environmental requirements through pollution prevention activities. Our vision is to be known for our commitment to minimizing the impact we and our products have on the environment. We have no environmental vision.

Which best describes who sets environmental strategy in your organization?

Management Area: Strategy & Vision

Each manager sets and implements strategy in his or her area with no central input. Each manager sets and implements strategy in his or her area with input from an informal corporate strategy process. Senior staff in each functional organization set strategy. Implementation focuses on completing discrete initiatives. A centralized, strategic planning unit sets strategy. Implementation consists mainly of coordinated initiatives across units. No one at our organization sets environmental strategy.

Which best describes the person who manages your organization’s sustainable supply chain activities?

Management Area: Organization & Culture

An advocate who is not at the managerial level. A manager whose primary responsibilities are not in sustainable supply chain management. A manager with primary responsibilities in sustainable supply chain management. A manager with primary responsibilities in sustainable supply chain management who reports directly to the CEO, President, or other senior corporate officer. No one manages our sustainable supply chain.

Which of the following best describes your organization’s sustainable supply chain initiatives?

Management Area: Organization & Culture

Initiatives are functionally developed and uncoordinated. Initiatives are functionally developed but coordinated across the organization. Initiatives are coordinated across the organization and part of a well-established program. Initiatives are coordinated, well-established, and derived directly from corporate green supply chain management mission, vision, goals, and objectives. Our organization does not have sustainable supply chain initiatives.

How do you encourage employees to excel in sustainable supply chain management?

Management Area: Organization & Culture

By offering informal recognition (e.g., verbal praise, mention at meetings). By offering informal recognition with non-monetary awards (e.g., certificates, titles). By offering financial incentives and formal recognition for success on sustainable supply chain initiatives. By incorporating sustainable supply chain initiatives into employee evaluation criteria. Our organization does not formally recognize sustainable supply chain efforts.

Which of the following best describes what guides your sustainable supply chain processes and policies?

Management Area: Process & Policy

Shareholder demands for short term financial gains. One or a few individuals championing the sustainable supply chain processes or policies. Recognition of corporate social responsibilities by headquarters and employees. Our corporate culture espousing social responsibility and sustainable supply chain processes or policies. We do not have any sustainable supply chain processes or policies in place.

Which of the following best describes your organization’s policies for improving supply chain sustainability and environmental processes?

Management Area: Process & Policy

Separate for individual groups; they are not integrated with internal or external activities. Integrated on a limited basis; they are integrated with internal operations/functions, but we recognize the interaction of functional areas. Internally integrated across closely related functions at all levels; there is some integration/coordination with suppliers. Fully integrated/coordinated across internal functions; they are integrated with supplier, customer, and other supply chain partner policies and processes. We do not have any sustainable supply chain processes or policies in place.

In your organization, how are sustainable supply chain processes and policies developed?

Management Area: Process & Policy

Informally, or not at all. Against internally developed guidelines. Against recognized industry standards. Formally, standardized, and audited with formal feedback and continuous improvement process. We do not have any sustainable supply chain processes or policies in place.

With whom do you communicate about programs to green our supply chain?

Management Area: Information & Communications

Employees who support sustainable supply chain efforts. All employees. All employees and some supply chain partners. All employees, supply chain partners, and other stakeholders (e.g. shareholders, environmental networks, and the public). This does not apply to our organization.

Which statement best describes your organization’s approach to communicating with stakeholders about sustainable supply chain management?

Management Area: Information & Communications

Informal and limited to gathering data within our organization and not among supply chain partners. Informal and limited to gathering data within our organization and not among supply chain partners. Formal and inclusive of all information from internal departments and limited information from supply chain partners. Formal with complete data from our supply chain partners. We do not gather supply chain information.

Which statement best describes your organization’s approach to informing stakeholders about your sustainable supply chain initiatives?

Management Area: Information & Communications

We do not share our initiatives with stakeholders. We have limited information on our initiatives available upon request. We occasionally share information about our initiatives through one type of media (newsletter, internet, television commercial). We regularly communicate detailed information about our initiatives using several tools, such as product packaging, the internet, and annual reports. Do not know.

Which best describes the training programs for sustainable supply chain management offered to employees?

Management Area: Workforce & Skills

As the need arises, we provide training for sustainable supply chain management employees who request it. We plan training for sustainable supply chain management employees in order to meet future needs. The training program is informal, but recommended by managers. We schedule mandatory training for all sustainable supply chain management employees to meet our programmatic goals. These trainings are optional for all other employees. Our organization schedules mandatory training for all employees appropriate for their role and responsibilities. We encourage additional training to keep up with cutting edge sustainable supply chain practices. We do not have training for sustainable supply chain management.

In our organization, personnel tasked with environmental management work with other employees to fully integrate environmental initiatives into our supply chain management.

Management Area: Workforce & Skills

In our organization, the skill level of personnel to execute programs that green the supply chain is:

Management Area: Workforce & Skills

Your enterprise-level metrics for sustainable supply chain management are…

Management Area: Management Systems

Functional, unique metrics created for each individual task and generally not used. Created uniquely for each task and used inconsistently. Standard and automated, allowing continuous repeatable use, but used inconsistently. Standard and automated for all tasks and projects and used consistently. We have not created any enterprise level metrics for our sustainable supply chain management system.

Which of the following best describes how your sustainable supply chain management activities are captured in the budget?

Management Area: Management Systems

Sustainable supply chain management activities are not specifically cited in the budget. Sustainable supply chain management activities are implied as part of overhead in the budget. Sustainable supply chain management activities are expressed as part of overhead in the budget. Sustainable supply chain management activities are captured in a dedicated budget line. Don’t know.

Your management processes integrate your sustainable supply chain and environmental management activities.

Management Area: Management Systems

Strongly disagree. Partially disagree. Partially agree. Strongly agree. We do not have a quality management program for either our sustainable supply chain or our environmental management systems.

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