Analyze operations and supply chain trends for their benefits and drawbacks regarding social, environmental, and financial sustainability

Assess the coordination of sustainability efforts with trading partners across the supply chain for the extent to which it reduces environmental impacts

Assess organizational performance by applying triple bottom line theory in balancing social, environmental, and financial requirements

Evaluate business practices for their appropriateness in achieving sustainable operations in manufacturing and service operations

I. Overview

A. Briefly introduce the company you researched. Focus on the company’s sustainability efforts, especially its efforts to maintain financial, environmental, and social sustainability and what the results of these efforts have been.

B. How do emerging technologies or best practices affect environmental and social sustainability efforts at the company you researched? How do they affect the financial bottom line at this company? Be sure to provide support for your analysis. C. Assess this company’s collaboration with its suppliers and customers. Does this collaboration improve its environmental sustainability across the entire supply chain? If it does, what evidence is there of this? If it doesn’t, why do you think this is? Support your reasoning with evidence.

D. What metrics are this company using to assess how well it is meeting its environmental and social impact goals? What data are used to support these metrics, and how are these data collected? Explain why you think the company chose these metrics.

II. Environmental and Social Sustainability Plan

A. How might the technologies or best practices described in the overview be effective in meeting XYZ’s environmental and social sustainability goals? How might they hinder XYZ’s pursuit of environmental and social sustainability? Be sure to support your analysis.

B. How could XYZ collaborate with its suppliers to improve environmental and social sustainability across the entire supply chain? Be sure to support your assessment with the information you have previously researched.

C. Assess these efforts to collaborate with suppliers for their effectiveness in reducing XYZ’s environmental and social impact and provide support for your conclusions.

D. How could XYZ collaborate with its customers to improve environmental and social sustainability across the entire supply chain? Remember, customers can be both businesses and direct consumers. Be sure to support your assessment with the information you have previously researched.

E. Assess these efforts to collaborate with customers for their effectiveness in reducing XYZ’s environmental and social impact and provide support for your conclusions.

F. Choose metrics to assess how well XYZ Manufacturing Company is meeting its environmental and social impact goals. What data would be used to support these metrics? How would you collect these data? Explain why these metrics would be effective.

III. Implications for Financial Sustainability

A. How could this environmental and social sustainability plan potentially affect the financial sustainability of XYZ Manufacturing Company in the long term? Provide support for your explanation

. B. What are the implications of emerging technology or best practices for environmental and social sustainability on the financial bottom line of XYZ? How does this differ from the implications discussed earlier on your researched company? Provide supporting evidence for your answers.

IV. Integration

A. How do the financial, social, and environmental plans at XYZ come together to represent the best practices of sustainability? How do the practices suggested in the environmental and social sustainability plan relate to the company you researched previously? Provide support for your answers.

B. How do you balance and remove conflict among all three aspects of the triple bottom line? For example, how do you ensure that your plans for environmental sustainability do not negatively impact your plans for financial and social sustainability? Provide support for your answers.

C. Outline key milestones that XYZ Manufacturing Company would need to meet to achieve the same level of environmental, social, and financial sustainability as your researched company based on the timeline that it took your researched company to achieve its current level of sustainability and your current knowledge of the triple bottom line.