Module 4

Integrating environment thinking into supply chain management, including product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing processes, delivery of the final product to the consumers, and end-of-life management of the product after its useful life"

• POINT OF SALE

• GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

• GREENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN

• ETHICAL SOURCING

In building a child's crib, a manufacturer must focus on every step of the process from the trees used, to transport, to ease of recycling.

• TRANSPORT

• END OF LIFE

• GREENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN

• TRANSPORT

·       Trees are tagged for tracing. Logging practices protect communities, air, water, and wildlife habitat

• ETHICAL SOURCING

• MANUFACTURING

• POINT OF SALE

• TRANSPORT

Parts are milled to specifications that are safe for workers, consumers, and the environment.

 

• POINT OF SALE

• CUSTOMER USE

• MANUFACTURING

• REUSE

Information for consumers includes place of origin and manufacturing chemicals.

• POINT OF SALE

• TRANSPORT

• PACKAGING

• CUSTOMER USE

Trucks use the cleanest technology, reduce idling, and travel the most direct route.

• CUSTOMER USE

• TRANSPORT

• POINT OF SALE

• REUSE

Cribs are assembled and packaged in boxes made from post-consumer recycled materials.

• MANUFACTURING

• CUSTOMER USE

• PACKAGING

• END OF LIFE

The crib is easily assembled. Packaging is curbside recyclable.

 

• END OF LIFE

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  CUSTOMER USE

• REUSE

• TRANSPORT

Crib is not a disposable product, rather is passed on to family and friends

• TRANSPORTATION

• END OF LIFE

• REUSE

• PACKAGING

No longer useful as a crib, recyclable parts are recycled

• CUSTOMER USE

• END OF LIFE

• REUSE

• PACKAGING