Burton: Riding the Green Supply Chain Wave

Automating supply chain transactions with trading partners can have significant cost benefits, but it also can directly affect the environment. Starting in 2008, Burton (Burton.com | Burton Snowboards), the world’s leading snowboard company, turned to GXS Managed Services to automate its B2B e-commerce transactions with its customers. In doing so, the company made a significant dent in reducing its paper usage for electronic transactions. It also reduced its costs for things like postage, paper and envelopes. All in all, Burton saved approximately 4 tons of wood use, 30 million BTUs, 5882 lbs CO2, 22,219 gallons wastewater, and 1,909 lbs solid waste from July 2008 through June 2009 through its use of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) with customers.¹
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Sustainability and B2B Outsourcing

Doing Well by Your Stakeholders While Doing Well by the Environment and Future Generations

It's not often when the choice is this simple. Pursuing a reduced supply chain carbon footprint through outsourcing B2B actually helps improve your bottom line. Three primary drivers─error reduction, transportation improvements and IT optimization come together in a mature B2B program to both reduce costs and provide significant environmental benefits.
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