The Challenge

Product recalls, child labor and unauthorized environmental releases are issues that can present significant risk to a company. The more transparent your supply chain is, the more likely you can spot these potential risks before they impact your business. But how do you collect, store and manage performance data from large numbers of suppliers while ensuring those data are verifiable and leveragable so performance may be tracked and communicated over time?

Our Solution

First, Source 44 assesses the sustainability of clients’ operations, facilities, products and suppliers. The information is analyzed by Source 44’s hosted online subscription service, Source Intelligence™. A dynamic platform, Source Intelligence™ is able to highlight opportunities for reduction or improvement across a company’s operations and supply chain.

Source 44 then leverages its partnership with Palmetto Climate to provide an end-to-end supply chain sustainability improvement solution that can take you from comprehensive assessment to reduction project implementation. Specializing in financing sustainable projects and carbon trading, Palmetto utilizes Source 44's findings to implement solutions that ultimately improve your company's sustainability.

With tight linkage capability within Source Intelligence™ that enables you to track your carbon trading and energy efficiency implementations, you will have access to a unique technology platform that will track, measure and communicate the program every step of the way. As an added feature to the platform, SourceAlert also monitors your entire supply chain for interruptions and generates valuable and timely alerts about sustainability activities in your supply chain.

Invariably, this program is self-funding: realized cost combined with carbon reduction benefits outweigh the cost of the program. 

Products Used: Product Footprinting and SourceAlert.