2011 APICS Fox Valley Chapter Sustainable Company Award Application

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To be considered for this award you must provide an essay describing how your company has/is pursuing sustainability initiatives (within the last year 2 years). Your essay will be reviewed by members of the APICS Fox Valley Chapter Board based on the criteria listed below. The award will be presented at Top Management 2011. Please limit your essay to 1000 words. The deadline is January 31, 2011. Please submit an electronic copy to Joanne Gorski at gorski@fvtc.edu or Phil Kosik at kosik@fvtc.edu

The criteria for this award are based upon the “Triple Bottom Line” (TBL). This is a term coined by John Elkington; his idea explains Sustainability as a three legged stool. The name Triple Bottom Line stems from the idea that business needs to shift focus to not only look at the bottom line, but also include the environment and social aspects of business to truly be sustainable. Economic, Environment, and Social are the three categories as defined by Elkington, he explains that when one of the three legs are missing the stool cannot stand, thus the company cannot sustain itself. Elkington believes that sustainability is something companies should strive for and that it should be a goal that is used to drive continuous improvement. Some examples of in each category are listed below.

1. Social- Charity, volunteering, employee treatment, community involvement, supplier interaction/ satisfaction, etc...

2. Environment- Carbon footprint, strategic energy/ carbon plans, recycling numbers/ plans, ISO 140001 cert, future environmentally friendly prods, strategic plans etc.

3. Economic- Other ISO cert's, published purchasing standards, supplier standards, lean/ continuous improvement etc...

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