Green Business Operations Enabling the Eco-Enterprise

Reduce energy costs and emissions. Improve resource utilization and eliminate waste. Optimize product design and compliance for the environment.

Environmental and sustainability practices today need to be embedded in all aspects of an organization's operations. This includes sourcing sustainable materials, producing and shipping products in a sustainable way, reducing the energy consumption of products, managing the waste and recycling at all stages of the product development, and reporting on your sustainability initiatives. Organizations that run lean and green can be more productive, more profitable, and less polluting. By taking an environmental stance, your organization can cut costs, reduce risks, drive revenues, and improve your brand.

More companies are looking to Oracle Applications to help them manage, execute, and measure their sustainability initiatives. With the product capabilities and breadth of Oracle Applications, Oracle helps enable organizations to become eco-enterprises.

• Design for the Environment: Enabling organizations to manage product, substance, and material compliance against standards and regulatory requirements. This includes incorporating increasingly more environmentally-sustainable materials, features, and manufacturing processes into new product designs as part of product lifecycle management including Agile Product Lifecycle Management.
• Sustainable Sourcing: Selecting suppliers and products based on their environmental credentials as part of the sourcing process.
• Sustainable Manufacturing: Managing and reducing manufacturing costs and environmental impacts by applying lean manufacturing principles to environmentally sensitive components and production operations.
• Supply Chain Design and Planning: Optimizing supply networks for production cost and time, as well as environmental cost and risks by using strategic network optimization tools.
• Sustainable Logistics: Helping your transportation function become more environmentally friendly and cost efficient using transportation management tools.
• Product Takeback: Improving reverse supply chain efficiencies while addressing increasing product take-back requirements, using solutions like Oracle Depot Repair.
• Facilities and Asset Management: Reducing energy costs and extending the life of assets by managing them more efficiently using enterprise asset management and intelligent device monitoring.
• Smart Utilities Grid: Adding intelligence to your infrastructure enabling smart grid and smart metering initiatives providing customers with choice and convenience without additional costs.
• Paperless Processes: Reducing the waste caused by paper-based systems and minimizing energy and fuel consumption through customer self-service applications and contact center solutions. Eliminating paper-based processes while reducing document storage and shipping costs with content management.