TOSCATowards sustainable supply chains

through a common approach for company strategic work and daily operations

Project information

• Funded by the EU LIFE+ Programme: demonstration project

• Runs 2009-2011

• Co-operation between AkzoNobel, SCA and Chalmers University of Technology

• Project results at www.tosca-life.info or www.dantes.info

SCA

• SCA is a global consumer goods and paper company that develops, produces and markets personal care products, tissue, packaging solutions, publication papers and solid-wood products.

• Sales are conducted in some 90 countries.

• 52.000 employees and €11.5 billion in sales

Environmental Systems Analysis

• Division within the Dept of Energy and Environmnet at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Sustainability in the supply chains – analysis of current work practices and way forward, LCM 2009-09-08, UP5

Environmental assessment

Technological change

Industrial environmental

practice

Background

• DANTES.info provides tools for different company functions

• Importance of communication within as well as between companies in order for the tools to be effective in pursuing sustainable development

• The tools need to be used in a context of sustainable development definition, indicators and strategies

• AkzoNobel and SCA has been using LCM for many years and are now expanding their work with suppliers and customers

Objectives

Facilitate work on:

• data exchange, communication and cooperation for sustainable development in supply chains

• developing strategies, communicating and applying tools for sustainability

In order to achieve a sustainable development of the company and its supply chains

Approach

• Bottom up: facilitate the integration and communication of sustainability aspects and knowledge in daily operations– What can I do?– How do I do it?

• Top down: facilitate development, communication and implementation of sustainability strategies– What does sustainable development mean to our

organization?– Establishing strategies to pursue sustainable development– Organizational structure to work with and communicate SD

• In the value chain: communicate and cooperate on pursuing sustainable development

Project workplan

Setting up the “framework”- Gather information through research and interviews within our

companies- Analyzing and making recommendations on approach to take- Present the approach (“framework) on our internet site tosca-life.info

Dissemination and implementation of the framework- Making people within our organizations and outside aware of the

project- Holding seminars and workshops on our framework within our

organizations and also within some of our suppliers and customers- Implementing our framework in our own organizations

Experiences- Presenting experiences on the work done

Final delivery – the framework

• Description of assessment, data and communication tools used for pursuing sustainable development

• Their use within the participating companies • Organizational structures for sustainability work

within the participating companies• Strategies and communication of sustainable

development within the participating companies and their suppliers and customers

• Experiences from implementing the framework• All this presented comprehensibly at the project

web site www.tosca.life.info