Filed under: purchasing management | Tags: bilan carbone, bilan carbone ademe, empreinte carbone, verteegocarbon
Verteego Carbon a été lancé en décembre 2008 pour faciliter le calcul du Bilan Carbone selon la méthodologie de l’ADEME aux entreprises.
Fin janvier 2009, plus de 100 entreprises ont déjà choisi Verteego Carbon pour faire leur Bilan Carbone.
En effet, la simplicité de l’interface et la multitude des fonctionnalités proposées (collecte de données collaborative, analyse statique et dynamique des données Bilan Carbone, objectifs de réduction des émissions de carbone, l’export des données Bilan Carbone ADEME dans le format du tableur Bilan Carbon de l’ADEME, possibilité de gérer un projet de calcul empreinte carbone sur plusieurs années, Bilan Carbone multi-sites, forum d’entraide intégré, etc, etc.) ont su convaincre de nombreux décideurs soucieux de l’environnement.
Verteego Carbon est la première solution en France entièrement en ligne qui s’approche d’une véritable comptabilité carbone en intégrant outils de mesures et définition d’objectifs de réduction en une seule plateforme.
Verteego Carbone utilise les données Bilan Carbone de l’ADEME, mais permet également le calcul selon les périmètres correspondant au protocole GHG (ISO 14064).
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Filed under: purchasing management | Tags: ademe, bilan carbone, développement durable, verteego, verteegocarbon
L’entreprise VerteegoCarbon vient de lancer un logiciel de Bilan Carbone en ligne.
Verteego Carbon permettra à ses utilisateurs de réaliser de manière autonome un Bilan Carbone selon la méthodologie de l’ADEME.
Verteego Carbon est édité par la société Emerald Vision qu produit également le site Verteego, un outil en ligne qui permet à des PME de créer leur rapport de développement durable en ligne.
Filed under: cost reduction, organization, public procurement, purchasing management
If I start today to write about all those differences in public management between France and the UK, I wouldn’t have finished in months.
But let’s have a short look on government procurement in those two countries though.
The UK approach is very simple, innovative and pragmatic. It can be resumed as follows:
– buy goods and services where they are used
– calculate investments using a whole-life cost approach
– outsource services whenever it increases quality for a lower cost
– total transparency of bidding and selection procedures
The French approach is not as mature. Even if the French governement has a centralized agency for public procurement, high labor costs and too many public employees often destroy the benefits of grouped procurement. For instance, many local authorities often don’t buy at the central procurement agency because they can find cheaper prices on their own.
Just have a quick look on the two official websites to visualize the difference between France and the UK.
Filed under: aerospace, airbus, cost reduction, eads, organization, purchasing management, strategic sourcing
Jason Busch wrote an interesting post on Airbus’s sourcing strategy in China.
EADS, which buys products for around USD 60M from Chinese companies and expects to double this amount by 2010, has opened a strategic sourcing office in Bejing recently.
Two main reasons may explain such a decision:
1) The more intuitive one, claimed by Jason, may let us believe that Airbus – like it may happen quite often in the A&D sector – is playing the political game, i.e. creating contacts with local companies to increase orders from national airlines and the Chinese army. I think that this point is quite relevant considering the early stage of Airbus’s presence in China.
But if sourcing in China may represent a short-term driver to sales increases, for me there is another, perhaps even more obvious, explanation for Airbus’s decision.
2) Opening sourcing offices in strategic geographical regions is more than increasing sales. Sourcing is, before all, to gather detailed knowledge about the local supplier base in order to create durable partnerships and become a preferred contractor on a long run.
If today Airbus’s strategy might appear as a purely political action, in a near future, Airbus will produce in China and established supplier partnerships will become a clear advantage in favour of the European company.
A nice video on steel making in the USA at the beginning of the 30s.
I’ll try to find out the company they are showing and post a comparison in the next days.
Filed under: bio-fuel, purchasing management, raw materials, sustainable development, sustainable procurement
According to a recent book written by the french authors Jean-Daniel and Elsa Pellet Jatropha curca is going to be the main energy supply of the future.This plant able to grow in very dry areas of our planet has some big advantages compared to other bio-fuels:
– Jatropha curca is extremely resistant to climatic conditions (heat, few water). It can, thus, be planted in dry zones and is already in use to fight desertification.
– It does also resist to other natural influences such as animal damages or fast weather changes better than other plants.
– Plantations are very economic as Jatropha curca can be planted on soils were other agricultural use is impossible and the residuals of oil productions make up a very well performing fertilizer.
To sum it up, Jatropha curca does not only allow to produce bio-fuel in a cheaper way, it will even help naturally disadvantaged geographic areas to relaunch an economic activity.
So, is Jatropha curca the miracle that will change the geostrategic positionings during the decades to come?
Some countries have already launched projects to make use of the plant’s benefits. India plans to plant 40M hectares by 2012 and China, Thailand and Vietnam are analysing various solutions. Some – maybe very clever – investors have spend important amounts on private plantations in these countries.
But first tests are quite frustrating. In the early 90’s, a Nicaraguan plantation only produced 200 litres per hectare, far from the expected 1900 litres. Recent test in Brazil have shown ambiguous results.
May genetic manipulation improve the output quality of the plant or is it just a matter of time and experience to know how to manage plantations best?
We’ll probably know it soon…
Filed under: automotive, cars, cost reduction, ford, material cost, purchasing management, raw materials, steel, USA, way forward
The number 2 US automotive industrial seems to be on the right way to realize its cost reduction goals set for 2008.
According to a Reuters story, Ford exceeded its raw material cost targets by 9% through February. The carmaker expected raw material expenses to decrease by 25% in this month.
Recent upgoing raw material prices, especially for steel, had made life difficult for the automotive industry. Both, suppliers and manufacturers struggle to keep profitable in an environment of intensive competition on consumer prices and a deccelarating demand on main markets.
Ford’s “Way Forward” programme launched in 2006 should improve the automaker’s profitability until 2010. The plan, in its original name “Aligned Business Framework” aims to “align buyers, suppliers, designers and assembly personnel on a single mission of sustainable profitability”. As a financial goal of its plan, Ford announced cost reductions of at least USD 6 billion by 2010.
Many newspapers and on-line media are currently discussing (and often destroying) Vista Professional and MS Office 2007 because of its insufficient compatibility with professional needs. This may concern time, data security or flexibility.
I got Vista Professional as a free Licence from my school, set it up one month ago on my personal laptop (I admit, it’s a 2 yr-old HP, 1.6Gh, 512RAM) and observed exactly the same problems. Slow performances, total or partial incompatibility with main software, hard drive’s running all the time, more heating, higher start-up and close-down times, etc. To sum it up, I have not seen the advantages of Microsoft’s new OS yet (all the new functions copied from Mac’s Tiger OS don’t work because of the “age” and the insufficient graphical configuration of my computer).
I am using my PC for personal use only and don’t expect a very high performance for what I’m doing. But I think I wouldn’t stand only one hour if my company would ask me to work under time pressure on this environment.
Concerning the critics on MS Office 2007, I agree on n the fact that it is slowing down considerably the whole operating system, but globally I found that it was rather well done. The more user-friendly interface of Excel, PowerPoint & Co. might become an interesting offer not only for private users, but also for companies. I’m specially thinking about all the consultants and commercial, who, before PowerPoint 2007, had to add specialized macros to their programmes to make the content of their presentations a little bit sexier.
What’s good news for companies is that every time that Microsoft is publishing new OS, they act as a leader and all the other software publishers and hardware industrials will follow up with adapted offers. Most companies don’t like to take risks. My guess is that Vista will begin to be purchased by professional users massively in 2008.
Pay one, take two! 