Reducing environmental impact in procurement by integrating material parameters in information systems: The example of apple sourcing

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1061-1070

  Dada, Ali ^a   Staake, Thorsten ^b   Fleisch, Elgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apple sourcing; Environmental purchasing; Green IS; Green procurement; Material footprint

Indexed keywords

APPLE SOURCING; BUSINESS OPERATION; BUSINESS-USERS; CYCLE PARAMETERS; ENERGY COST; ENERGY USAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; GREEN IS; GREEN PROCUREMENT; IMPACT REDUCTION; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION POTENTIAL; VALUE CHAINS;

BENCHMARKING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FRUITS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84870420907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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