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If you spend more than about $1 million a year on energy, your potential savings are big enough to make this worth your time.

If you operate more than about 20 stores, your energy-management challenges are complex enough that you’ll welcome these ideas, specifically aimed at multisite retailers.

White Paper Summary

The world's largest retailer, Walmart, has really brought the issue of life cycle analysis and supply-chain emissions tracking to the forefront. With much fanfare, Walmart announced during mid-July 2009 that it would be developing a “Sustainability Index” which would in no small way require its suppliers, all 100,000 of them, to measure sustainability as part of the overall supply chain.

Emissions tracking may not become a mandatory requirement across the board, but many organizations are still planning to fully engage as they understand that other stakeholders will demand some form of accountability, tacitly or otherwise. It seems clear that we will soon see annual company reports contain comprehensive carbon analysis and transparency.

Legislation or not, expect to see companies address the issue of gas emissions tracking aggressively and seek to gain significant public relations capital out of positive achievements.

Lifecycle analysis (LCA), or lifecycle assessment, tells us about the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle. Detailed information will theoretically allow significant opportunities for improvement along the cycle. There is clear potential here but it should be noted that considerable challenges exist before significant benefits may accrue from such an analysis.

Sustainability Resource Planning (SRP)

Verisae, Inc. empowers organizations to engage in “On Demand Sustainability” initiatives in a localized facility or across a global enterprise. Our core offerings allow distributed organizations across the globe to effectively track and manage assets from the usage, cost to run, energy consumption, and carbon consequence perspectives.

Sustainability Resource Planning (SRP) - Covers the core functions of sustainability needs by combining multiple business processes and systems into one database to use across the enterprise.

They are uniquely position to help organizations prove return on investment (ROI) on Greenhouse Gas management and reporting. Their solutions are delivered via a common web browser so that organizations with thousands of locations and 10’s of thousands of assets can be implemented in a manner of months.

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