ISM Endorses Environmental Standards For Supply Professionals
July 15, 2005
The Institute for Supply Management is calling upon supply professionals to pursue socially responsible behaviors. To encourage such behaviors, the Tempe, Ariz.-based organization has issued a document outlining its principles of social responsibility. ...
The Institute for Supply Management is calling upon supply professionals to pursue socially responsible behaviors. To encourage such behaviors, the Tempe, Ariz.-based organization has issued a document outlining its principles of social responsibility.
The document outlines professional standards in seven areas: community, diversity, environment, ethics, financial responsibility, human rights and safety. The environment principle, for example, promotes the adoption of environmentally sound practices both within a company's four walls and among its suppliers--the eventually goal being good practices throughout the supply chain.
ISM's Principles of Social Responsibility are online at http://www.ism.ws/sr In addition to a downloadable version of the principles, the Website contains results of a survey measuring current environmental practices among supply professionals as well as links associated with each of the seven principles.
