Real Green Supply Chain Initiatives Powered by GXS

A large European retailer utilizes GXS messaging to move transactions between itself and its suppliers. 

Besides reduction in paper use, this retailer has optimized transportation, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helped suppliers optimize their planning, thus reducing unnecessary production.

This retailer has eliminated 182 metric tons of paper *using GXS Trading Grid®. This green supply chain initiative impacted the environment by excluding the need for:

• 661 tons of wood, the equivalent of about 4,573 trees
• the consumption of 7,527 million BTU's of energy, the equivalent of the energy used by about 83 homes each year
• 1,120,108 lbs (560 tons) CO2 equiv., about the CO2 emitted by approximately 102 cars yearly
• 3,738,049 gallons of water, the equivalent of maintaining about 6 Olympic sized swimming pools

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A large international consumer electronics supplier (both drop ship and distribution) utilizes GXS messaging for transactions between itself and its customers.

By using B2B e-commerce to communicate with their suppliers instead of paper, this company reduces the destruction of trees and release of harmful green house gases.

This supplier has eliminated 1143 metric tons of paper* using GXS Trading Grid®. This green supply chain initiative impacted the environment by excluding the need for:

• 4,148 tons of wood, the equivalent of about 28,719 trees
• the consumption of 47,271 million BTU's of energy, the equivalent of the energy used by about 519 homes each year
• 7,034,526 lbs (3517 tons) CO2 equiv., about the CO2 emitted by approximately 639 cars yearly
• 23,475,769 gallons of water, the equivalent of maintaining about 36 Olympic sized swimming pools

*Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator. For more information visit http://www.papercalculator.org