While supply-chain optimization hasn't generally focused on environmental responsibility, it does at paper, office supply and construction materials manufacturer Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho. The $8.2 billion-company participates in the American Forest & Paper Association's Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), which requires that in order to receive SFI certification, suppliers must have their forestlands audited for compliance with the SFI objectives:
- Broadening the practice of sustainable forestry.
- Ensuring long-term forest productivity and conservation.
- Protecting water quality.
- Enhancing wildlife habitat and contributing to biodiversity.
- Minimizing the visual impact of harvesting.
- Protecting special sites (historic, geologic, cultural, and ecological).
- Promoting the efficient use of forest resources.
- Encouraging the use of sustainable forestry practices by forest landowners, forest-ers and wood producers.
- Publicly reporting on progress in sustainable forestry.
- Providing opportunities for the public and the forestry community to participate in the commitment to sustainable forestry.
- Promoting continual improvement in sustainable forestry.
