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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 4:14:30 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | With the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler, Big Blue hopes to give manufacturers visibility into the pros and cons of everyday business decisions. |
| Keywords: | green supply chain, carbon in the supply chain |
IBM Corp. yesterday rolled out a modeling tool aimed at helping manufacturers understand the carbon impact of their supply chains on the environment and analyze the trade-offs they must make every day among service levels, quality, cost, and carbon dioxide emissions.
IBM expects manufacturers to use the Carbon Tradeoff Modeler tool to analyze both the carbon emissions and trade-offs within the four walls of the enterprise and the emissions impact of their end-to-end supply chains, including suppliers, logistics providers, and other partners.
“We’re seeing a lot of companies looking at carbon emissions, along with water usage and other concerns, in the manufacturing process,” said Karen Butner, global supply chain management lead at the IBM Institute for Business Value, in an interview with Managing Automation. “But some are also beginning to look at these issues up and down the supply chain as they realize they can’t pass the buck.”
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