Where most companies stake their sustainability message on their internally focused initiatives, GXS’s greatest environmental impact is through the benefits we bring our customers through deal automation and supply chain optimisation. We have a track record of helping automate supply chain operations to reduce carbon footprints and environmental impacts.
Our customers significantly reduce their overall carbon footprint through decreased paper use, improved production, decreased expediting of freight, improved product availability, reduced waste and optimised transportation.
We are committed to being green. We have reduced our own data centre energy consumption between 60% and 80% through a $150 million dollar re-engineering programme that also increased the performance and capabilities of our industry leading infrastructure. We are recycling more, reducing paper usage ourselves, created low-impact PowerPoint templates to reduce ink and toner usage.
We will reduce your impact on the environment. Our optimised data centres will be more environmentally friendly than managing your own B2B infrastructure. Automation brings a reduction in errors so you can have more confidence in your business data leading to optimisation of production, safety stock, transportation and more.
You will have a more mature and effective B2B programme. The Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum showed companies that outsource B2B see an average of over 240% ROI, automate with more partners and have a reduction in outstanding B2B projects. They see lower costs, lower risk and many other financially measurable improvements.
GXS Trading Grid combined with our Managed Services solution will provide you a global platform and will begin to deploy a more mature B2B programme immediately. And for some companies, a more mature B2B programme yields not only improved cost savings but also improved revenue as well.
GXS is committed to a sustainable global supply chain. This starts with our own commitment to reduce our carbon footprint. To this end GXS has established a Green Team to develop and implement global, sustainable practices and policies directed at all employees and offices. This team is managing our participation in governmental initiatives like the EPA’s Climate Leaders programme.
The team also plans and implements programmes in the following areas: Waste Reduction and Recycling, Energy Conservation, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Water Conservation, Sustainable Building, Alternative Transportation, and Corporate Social Responsibility. The team consists of over 25 people located in 7 different countries.